extraposition
The movement of an element from its normal place to one at the end, or near the end, of a sentence.
Noun
- The movement of an element from its normal place to one at the end, or near the end, of a sentence.
- The relative clause who impressed the audience is adjacent to its head noun performer in (106a). The same relative clause crosses the root dependency coming into the main verb came in (106b): a crossed dependency. This...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā English extra- English position English extraposition From extra- + position.