I want to know the meaning of “today's morphology is yesterday's syntax
I want to ask Thomas Givon's aphorism “today's morphology is yesterday's syntax.
In my country, there is a little information about his aphorism.
I suppose this aphorism relates to historical linguistics.
For example, English phrase “all be it” and “on to” changed “albeit” and “onto” according to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univerb...
I guess yesterday’s syntactical of “all be it” and “on to” changed “albeit” and “onto” of today’s morpheme .
Is that right? If my answer is wrong, would you please correct it