nonsentence

noun

noun

Etymology From non- + sentence.

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences An utterance that is not a sentence.

Those strings in the language are called sentences; the strings not in the language are called nonsentences.1979, Steven Pinker, “Formal models of language learning”, in Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:

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