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'''Hyperbaton''' is a [[figure of speech]] in which words that naturally belong together are separated from each other for emphasis or effect. This kind of unnatural or rhetorical separation is possible to a much greater degree in highly [[Inflection|inflected]] languages, where sentence meaning does not depend closely on [[syntax|word order]]. In [[Latin]] and [[Ancient Greek]], the effect of hyperbaton is usually to emphasize the first word. It has been called "perhaps the most distinctively alien feature of Latin word order."<ref>Andrew M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens, ''Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 524 (as cited by M. Esperanza Torrego in [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-09-33.html ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'' 2006.09.33]).</ref>
==Species of hyperbaton==
The term may be used in general for figures of disorder (deliberate and dramatic departures from standard word order). [[Aelius Donatus|Donatus]], in his work ''On [[Trope (linguistics)|tropes]]'', thus includes under hyperbaton five species: [[hysteron proteron|hysterologia]], [[anastrophe]] (for which the term hyperbaton is sometimes used loosely as a synonym), [[parenthesis (rhetoric)|parenthesis]], [[tmesis]], and [[synchysis]]. [[Apposition]] might also be included.
==Etymology==
"Hyperbaton" is a word borrowed from the Greek ''hyperbaton'' ({{polytonic|ὑπέρβατον}}), meaning "transposition," which is derived from ''hyper'' ("over") and ''bainein'' ("to step"), with the ''-tos'' verbal adjective suffix.
==Examples==
===Hyperbaton in English===
* Word order reversal in "Cheese I love!"
* One of the most popular examples - "Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?" - [[Yoda]] in "The Empire Strikes Back"
===Hyperbaton in highly inflected languages===
*{{polytonic|ὑφ' <u>ἑνὸς</u> τοιαῦτα πέπονθεν ἡ Ἑλλὰς <u>ἀνθρώπου</u>}} ([[Demosthenes]] 18.158, "Greece has suffered such things at the hands of one person": the word "one", ''henos'', occurs in its normal place after the preposition "at the hands of" [''hypo''], but "person" [''anthrōpou''] is unnaturally delayed, giving emphasis to "one.")
*{{polytonic|πρός σε γονάτων}} (Occurs several times in [[Euripides]], "[I entreat] you by your knees": the word "you" [''se''] unnaturally divides the preposition "by" from its object "knees.")
*''ab <u>Hyrcanis</u> Indoque a litore <u>siluis</u>'' ([[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]] 8.343, "from the Hyrcanian woods and from the Indian shore": "and from the Indian shore" is inserted between "Hyrcanian" and "woods" [''siluis''])
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==See also==
*[[Anastrophe]]
*[[Apposition]]
*[[Figure of speech]]
*[[Parenthesis]]
*[[Split infinitive]]
==External
*[http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/H/hyberbaton.htm ''Silva Rhetoricae'' entry]
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