Morphosyntactic category

The term morphosyntactic category is often used in the same sense as category-system.

• "...the classical 'accidentia' or 'accidents' may be reduced to the more familiar set of dimensions (Tense, Voice, Number, etc.) which form the traditional framework of word-inflection. In the preceding discussion we have often referred to these as categories; of the various grammatical uses of this term this is perhaps the one which sits most appropriately. But since it can also be used more generally (Proper Nouns, for example, are another 'category' in conventional usage), it will be helpful to have a qualifying term for this type in particular. We will therefore refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as morphosyntactic categories specifically." (Matthews 1974:66)

Reference

• Matthews, Peter H. 1974. Morphology: an introduction to the theory of word-structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Other languages

• German morphosyntaktische Kategorie