preverbal adjective 2noun 1forms 1 adjective2 •At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.The expressive power of intonation in communication with preverbal infants was a topic of considerable interest in the early literature on language acquisition. — 1989 •Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression.I will attempt to document some recent syntactic (word order) changes involving preverbal noun phrases in the Coast Tsimshian language. — 1974 noun1 •A preverb. formspreverbals
