Abstract
Inflectional morphology is of interest to syntacticians and morphologists alike because inflection provides a tangible window into syntactic categories. The very term morphosyntactic category denotes a category of a language that is identified on the basis of morphology that operates in the syntax. Where do such categories come from? We will call this the question of the ontology of morphosyntactic categories. Lillo-Martin and Meier (henceforth LMM second, where do morphosyntactic categories come from; and finally, related to the second, why do languages display the morphosyntactic categories that they do?
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