Timeline for Is there a grammatical term for moving a word to the front or back of a sentence?
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 17:37 | vote | accept | Haytham Aly | ||
| Jan 16, 2017 at 4:10 | comment | added | 1006a | If enough of these you use, speak like Yoda you can. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 1:04 | history | edited | Janus Bahs Jacquet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 0:16 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @sumelic Both ends of a sentence are definitely typologically more prominent positions than the ‘inner bits’; but whereas some languages—Arabic seemingly among them—have actual ‘tailing’ (‘backing’?) mechanisms that work like fronting does in English, English just tends to have a preference for keeping important elements in the latter parts of a sentence as far towards the end as can be wrangled. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 0:13 | comment | added | herisson | I've read somewhere that moving an element of a sentence to the end can sometimes emphasize it. I think the example given was "The patient was killed by his own doctor!" (Oh, it's mentioned here: "the end of the verb phrase is an ideal place to put something you want to emphasize" – The passive in English, Geoffrey K. Pullum) | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 23:47 | history | answered | Janus Bahs Jacquet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |