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What does extraposition mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) The movement of an element from its normal place to one at the end, or near the end, of a sentence.
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I also have a student who wants to do a qualifying paper on extraposition from object.
Extraposition is thus one of a variety of means that speakers have at their disposal to express their opinion of what they are saying.
Neither can you use front extraposition to topicalise in English as you can in Putongua.
The advantage of this extraposition is that the extraposed object keeps its natural syntactic marking.
The third argument is accommodated via incorporation in the verb, extraposition in a topic-comment construction, or contextually licensed ellipsis.

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