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preverb, n. and a. Gram.
A. n. With pronunc. |ˈpriːvɜːb|.
1. [pre- B. 1.] A particle or prefix preceding the stem of the verb.
1930[see Alfredian a.]. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. iii. 62 In English, many compound verbs borrowed from French consisting of a preverb (commonly, but erroneously, called a preposition..) and a base-word, and serving either as a noun..or as a verb, are distinguished in their use..by a difference of stress-accent. 1946L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 460 Certain particles, preverbs, freely precede verb stems. 1951Archivum Linguisticum III. 28 The early loss in NGmc of unstressed prefixes (i.e. mainly preverbs). 1967C. J. Fillmore in Glossa I. 91 Many of the syntactic properties of the positive and negative adverbial elements called ‘preverbs’ have already been discussed.
2. [pre- A. 2.] A verb which precedes another verb; an auxiliary verb.
1965F. Behre in Eng. Stud. XLVI. 91 It is the content of the pre-verb that is qualified by if and not the pre-verb (would, should, could, might, etc.).
B. adj. With pronunc. |priːˈvɜːb|. [pre- B. 2.] Occurring before a verb. Also as adv.
1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 33 Essentially, then, medial position means non-initial, pre-verb position. 1976Amer. Speech 1974 XLIX. 82 The collocation of much with prefer applies only when much is preverb, as in I much prefer a dry wine. |