nonverb
English
Etymology
non- + verb
Noun
nonverb (plural nonverbs)
- (grammar) A word that is not a verb.
- 1960, Alfred Louis Kroeber and George William Grace, The Sparkman Grammar of Luiseño (University of California Press), page 57
- Where no ambiguity has resulted, the terms (i.e., "verb," "nonverb," "noun," "adjective," etc.) applied to these classes have been used to refer to forms consisting of anything from a stem (single, nonaffix morpheme) to a sequence of several morphemes, whether or not the form in question constituted a word.
- 1960, Alfred Louis Kroeber and George William Grace, The Sparkman Grammar of Luiseño (University of California Press), page 57