Anacoluthon

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anacoluthon \An`a*co*lu"thon\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, not following,
     wanting sequence; 'an priv. + ? following.] (Gram.)
     A lack 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.


  
     Syn: anacoluthia
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  anacoluthon
       n : an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic
           structure to another [syn: {anacoluthia}]
       [also: {anacolutha} (pl)]