anacoluthon

• anacolouthon

From Late Latin anacolūthon, from Ancient Greek ἀνακόλουθον (anakólouthon, “without sequence, anomalous [of inflections or grammatical constructions]”), from ἀ(ν)- (a(n)-, “un-”) + ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos, “following”). Compare English non sequitur, from an analogous Latin phrase, denoting a different but related concept.

• IPA^(key): /ænəkəˈluːθɒn/

anacoluthon (plural anacolutha or anacoluthons)

1. (grammar) A sentence or clause that is grammatically inconsistent, especially with respect to the type of clausal or phrasal complement for the initial clause.

   The name of his dog is — I don't really remember right now.

   • 1835, Moses Stuart, A Treatise on the Syntax of the New Testament Dialect: With an Appendix, Containing a Dissertation on the Greek Article, Edinburgh: T. Clarke, →OCLC, page 249:

     Another species of anacoluthon is when, after the sentence is begun with a participle, the construction passes over into a finite verb, where we should naturally expect the participial construction to be continued.

2. (rhetoric) Intentional use of such a structure.
   • 1874, James Boyd, Elements of English Composition, Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and Practical; Prepared for Academies and Schools, New York: A.S. Barnes, →OCLC, page 281:

     Anacoluthon, though a grammatical defect, is a rhetorical beauty, if naturally produced or imitated; as, "If thou art he—but oh! how fallen!"

• anapodoton
• nominativus pendens

• non sequitur

• anacoluthon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “anacoluthon” in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 8th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1973 (1974 printing), →OCLC.
• Silva Rhetoricae

From Ancient Greek ἀνακόλουθον (anakólouthon, “without sequence, anomalous [of inflections or grammatical constructions]”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos, “following”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.na.kɔˈɫuː.tʰɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.na.koˈluː.t̪on]

anacolūthon n (genitive anacolūthī); second declension

1. anacoluthon

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• → English: anacoluthon
• → French: anacoluthe (learned)
• → Italian: anacoluto (learned)
• → Polish: anakolut
• → Portuguese: anacoluto (learned)
• → Spanish: anacoluto (learned)

• “anacoluthon” in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 8th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1973 (1974 printing), →OCLC.