nonconjunctive

See also: non-conjunctive

English

Alternative forms

• non-conjunctive

Etymology

From non- +‎ conjunctive.

Adjective

nonconjunctive (not comparable)

1. Not conjunctive.
   • 1878 November 21, “Answers to Queries”, in New-England Journal of Education, volume VIII, number 20, Boston, Mass., page 323, column 3:

     […] but we must confess that after reading his structural analyzation, showing the conjoinification of the prepositionally-constructed imagination to be a “simple sentence,” with the structurally incomplete, nonconjunctive, notional “I,” — poor little pronoun! — representing the basis of a distinctive prepositional structure, and “taught” a similarly expanded diminutive (“have” bearing a symbolical relationship, simply), that the three remaining elements seem rather to be taken into full sub-membership, making the adjunctability of the conjunctive arrangement “implicit” (that is connectionally informal), while the incompleteness of the unconfused conformatory thought expresses its sub-membership, — we find little, if any, light thrown upon the subject;

   • 1934, Maine Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, page 363:

     Allegation is of independent neglect through nonconjunctive delinquency of defendants.

   • 1959, Anthropological Linguistics, page 415:

     The fact that the negator is clearly a sequence of two words when nominalized or conjunctive suggests that even its nonnominalized, nonconjunctive form is really two words: […]