ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYPERBATON
Via Latin from Greek, literally: an overstepping, from hyper- + bainein to step.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERBATON»
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Discontinuous Syntax :
Hyperbaton in Greek:
Hyperbaton in Greek
The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as perhaps the richest and most fascinating area of current linguistics theory.
A. M. Devine Professor of Classics Stanford University, Chapel Hill Laurence D. Stephens Adjunct Professor of Classics University of North Carolina, 1999
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Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose
9.1 Frequency of hyperbaton of noun phrases A typology of hyperbata in Latin, as
well as some general aspects, was presented in Chapter 1, Section 7, p. 24 ff;73
the preceding section was devoted to internal hyperbaton. This section will ...
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Texts and Textuality: Textual Instability, Theory, and ...
Hyperbaton is the principal figure here; it is any departure from conventional
order — in the first instance word order. The best-known modern example is
perhaps Churchill's "This is the kind of impertinence up with which I will not put.
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Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study
924; 933.1; 947; 987; 1054.cß). Cf. § 1243, Stevens 1. For many theoreticians
hyperbaton is superior to anastrophe, so that anastrophe is only a type of
hyperbaton: Zonae. Fig. iii p. 170, 16 (without mention of the term "anastrophe");
Anon.
Heinrich Lausberg, David E. Orton, R. Dean Anderson, 1998
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Latin Word Order : Structured Meaning and Information: ...
Phrasal discontinuity, traditionally called hyperbaton in Classical studies, is
perhaps the most distinctively alien feature of Latin word order. In the early days
of generative grammar, free argument order was recognized as “scrambling,” but
free ...
A. M. Devine Professor of Classics Stanford University, Laurence D. Stephens Adjunct Professor of Classics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
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Discontinuous Syntax:
Hyperbaton in Greek
The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as an area of linguistics theory.
Andrew M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens, 2000
Meter. hendecasyllabics. 1 apud me, like French chez moi, is idiomatic: at my
place. 2 paucis ... diclnis: the vagueness of the invitation is part of the joke, as is
the parenthetical qualification si tibi di favent. The hyperbaton or artificial
separation ...
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Daniel H. Garrison, 2004
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American Journal of Philology
XII 161 hyperbaton, i. e. pendens sensus qui postea redditur. Other examples are
: A VII 346, VIII 127, XII 161, B I 19, II 12, VIII 5, G II 238. Donatus is quoted as
explaining A IX 30 by hyperbaton. The expression "hyperbaton in sensu" occurs ...
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, 1891
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Colloquial and Literary Latin
J. G. F. Powell 1 introduction 'Hyperbaton' is the name given, originally by
rhetoricians, to the phenomenon in both Latin and Greek word order whereby
words that are or seem to be syntactically connected (e.g. a noun and an
adjective which ...
Eleanor Dickey, Anna Chahoud, 2010
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On the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus: critical studies ...
The position of fj comes under the section of Riddell's chapter on hyperbaton
entitled ' grammatical governments intermingled by hyperbaton.' He gives (for
place of a verb) irpds ti tovt eiwey fi\eifras ; compare also below, 23 C, e£ aiv ... !j
iroAu ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPERBATON»
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The general term for a disruption in the order of words is hyperbaton. In many, if not all sentences, you are presented with opportunities to ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
Three classical rhetorical devices to optimise your digital copy
The likes of hyperbaton and syllepsis ('Mr Pickwick took his hat and his leave') live half-lives of richly deserved obscurity. But many others, such ... «Econsultancy, May 15»
CD review: Anthony Cheung, 'Roundabouts'
But the most fascinating piece here is “Hyperbaton,” which explodes into being and then patiently and quite movingly works through the ... «SFGate, Jan 15»
WRITING WRONGS: Writing Wrongs says a syntactical sayonara to …
Hyperbaton — a figure of speech in which the logical order of words or phrases is inverted is inverted especially for the sake of emphasis. «Sierra Vista Herald, Dec 14»
Recipes for Killer One-Liners
As he moves in 39 succinct chapters through techniques such as hyperbaton (deliberate disruption of a sentence's logical word order) and ... «Wall Street Journal, Oct 14»
