anacoluthon

English - Turkish

Definition of anacoluthon in English Turkish dictionary

bir cümle içinde anlam uyuşmazlığ

{i} anakolüt

{i} cümledeki anlam uyuşmazlığı

English - English

Definition of anacoluthon in English English dictionary

A sentence or other structure with no grammatical sequence; especially when deliberate, as a rhetorical device

an interruption in a sentence, sometimes indicated by a pause, that is afterwards restarted in a syntactically different way See also aposiopesis

a change in a grammatical construction within the same sentence "And these socks -- are they mine also?" See also: synesis

an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another

{i} construction that involves a break in grammatical sequence

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part

Hyphenation

an·a·co·lu·thon

Etymology

() From Late Latin anacoluthon, from Ancient Greek ἀνακόλουθον (anakolouthon, “without sequence”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + ἀκόλουθος (akolouthos, “following”).