外がい置ち変へん形けい

noun

extraposition

A technical term in generative grammar for a syntactic operation that moves a constituent to the right periphery of a clause, often leaving a trace or pronoun behind. Used in academic linguistics contexts.

• 生せい成せい文ぶん法ぽうでは、外がい置ち変へん形けいによって文ぶん末まつに要よう素そが移い動どうする現げん象しょうを説せつ明めいする。

  In generative grammar, extraposition explains the phenomenon where an element moves to the end of a sentence.

• 外がい置ち変へん形けいでは文ぶんの要よう素そを後うしろへ移うつす。

  In extraposition, an element of a sentence is moved toward the end.