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ˌextrapoˈsition Gram.
[f. extra- + position n.]
(See quot. 1933.) Hence ˌextrapoˈsitional a.
1927O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. III. i. 12 In many cases the to-infinitive as a primary is placed in extraposition while it represents it in the ordinary position. 1933― Ess. Eng. Gram. (1939) ix. 95 A word or group of words is often placed by itself, outside the sentence proper, in which it is represented by a pronoun; we then speak of ‘extraposition’: For the raine, it raineth every day. 1961Y. Olsson Syntax Eng. Verb v. 88 The extra-positional, but intra-sectional, units. |