Re: ot- I could hardly fail to disagree with you less.

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

It was a trick question. And I would have to look up those terms you
mention. It was a trick question because it wasn't about rhetoric
but syntax proper. The term I know, from the little modern
linguistics I studied in grad school, is "Yiddish movement" (or
"Yiddish fronting"), as in "Yiddish movement, I never use." 
"Movement" and "fronting" are general notions from transformational
(and later) grammar, some of which has to do with very obvious stuff
(Wh-fronting, as evidenced in "You went to the movies with Ralph"==>
"With whom did you go to the movies"), but some of which has to do
constructions like "My brother-in-law you want me to invite?", which
get called Yiddish movement for obvious reasons (and non-accidental
reasons, 'cause Yiddish proper is full of such frontings).




On May 14, at 3:00 PM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> David Auerbach wrote:
> > By me, litotic constructions are not unfavored. (Points to those
> > who know the name of the construction just used.
> Did you intend anastrophe or hyperbaton? I cannot find definitions
> that clarify the distinction--if any--between them.
> (And to be perfectly honest, I had to rummage about in Fowler's
> Technical Terms entry to refresh my memory. But I couldn't resist a
> challenge like that.)
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx


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