non-verbal
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
non-verbal (not comparable)
- (of communication) in a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language.
- (grammar, somewhat rare) of or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs
- 1991, Bernard Comrie, “On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory”, in Bernard Comrie and Mushira Eid (editors), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics III: Papers from the Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-55619-135-0, page 15 ↗:
- In the Moroccan dialect of Meknès, verbal negation is by means of the circumfix ma...-š, as in (15), while nonverbal negation is primarily by means of invariable ma-ši before the nonverbal predicate, as in (16).
- 2009, Anna Pazelskaya, "Three Kinds of Event Nominal Negation in Russian", in Peter Bosch, David Gabelaia, and Jérôme Lang (editors), Logic, Language, and Computation: 7th International Tbilisi Symposium, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-00664-7, page 25 ↗:
- Negative prefix in Russian is a distinctive feature of nonverbal parts of speech, namesly, nouns (even those that do not denote situations, e.g. 3a), adjectives (3b), and adverbs (3c): […]
- 1991, Bernard Comrie, “On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory”, in Bernard Comrie and Mushira Eid (editors), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics III: Papers from the Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-55619-135-0, page 15 ↗:
- (pathology) Unable to speak.
- Russian: неслове́сный
non-verbal (plural non-verbals)
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