adnex Gram.
(ˈædnɛks)
[f. ad- + nexus.]
In Jespersen's terminology, a word (usu. a verb) or group of words of secondary importance in a ‘nexus’ or predicative relation.
| 1924 [see adjunct B. 5 b]. 1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. vii. 100 Finite forms of verbs can only stand as secondary words (adnexes), never either as primaries or as tertiaries. 1933 ― Syst. Gram. 17 The dog runs, nexus: runs..is adnex to dog. 1933 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Andaman Islanders (rev. ed.) 504 In nexus the primary precedes the adnex, or in other words the nominative precedes the verb. |