extraposition

extraposition

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
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.

    Noun

    extraposition (countable and uncountable, plural extrapositions)

    1. (linguistics) The movement of an element from its normal place to one at the end, or near the end, of a sentence.
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