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Definition of Preverbal
1. Adjective. (context: child development) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words. ¹
2. Adjective. (linguistics of a part of speech) Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preverbal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preverbal
Literary usage of Preverbal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ériu by School of Irish Learning (Dublin), Royal Irish Academy (1907)
"ON CERTAIN INITIAL CHANGES IN THE IRISH VERB AFTER preverbal ... after preverbal
particles ending in a vowel, nt, 1 ro (do), an h- is added in the passive ..."
2. Rhythm and Word-order in Anglo-Saxon and Semi-Saxon: With Special Reference by August Dahlstedt (1901)
"The preverbal type develops here into the postverbal along with that of the nouns
when composition had not already fixed the preverbal position. ..."
3. Russian reader: accented texts, grammatical and explanatory notes by Paul Jean Marie Boyer, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Speranskiĭ, Leo Tolstoy, Samuel Northrup Harper (1906)
"On the opposition of accent of ползать (in simple and preverbal perfective compound
forms) and of -ползать (in preverbal imperfective composition), v. Rem. ..."
4. Acute Pain Management: Operative Or Medical Procedures and Trauma Clinical by Daniel B. Carr, Ada K. Jacox (1997)
"However, young verbal children may have difficulty communicating subjective
symptoms, like pruritus, nausea, and dysphoria; the preverbal child may show ..."
5. The Lasting Salute: Civil & Military Funerals 1921-1969 by B. C. Mossman, M. W. Stark (1995)
"If an infant or preverbal child becomes increasingly restless or irritable,
despite an increased opioid dose, it is important to consider treatment of ..."
6. When the Victim Is a Child by Debra Whitcomb (1992)
"... and prosecutors are cases involving certain "subpopulations" of children: very
young (sometimes preverbal) children, children with disabilities, ..."
7. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1907)
"... makes brief suggestions—some disclosing much ingenuity, and even imagination—on "
Initial Changes in the Irish Verb after preverbal Particles. ..."
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