Verbosus
Verbosus is a neologistic term used in linguistics and stylistics to describe texts or languages with a high density and elaboration of verb phrases. The word derives from Latin verbum meaning “word” and the suffix -osus meaning “full of.” In descriptive usage, verbosus denotes both morphosyntactic richness of verbs in a language and the stylistic emphasis on actions and processes in a text.
In corpus studies, a verbosus index may be computed as the proportion of verb tokens relative to
In historical and typological linguistics, languages with rich verbal morphology or polysynthetic tendencies may be described
See also: verbosity, periphrasis, verbal morphology, language style analysis. Note that verbosus is distinct from verbose,