anteposition

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an·te·po·si·tion

(an'tē-pō-zi'shŭn),

Forward or anterior position.

an·te·po·si·tion

(an'tē-pō-zi'shŭn)

Forward or anterior position.

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Before starting the test, the subject performed the task once with the guidance of the physiotherapist, reaching forward through a shoulder anteposition movement, starting from the reference position, and then reaching back.

A New Neurocognitive Interpretation of Shoulder Position Sense during Reaching: Unexpected Competence in the Measurement of Extracorporeal Space

Quoi qu'il en soit, il ressort que l'association anteposition et accentuation est un marquage adapte a la transmission d'une information de type contrastif.

Contrastive focalisation in Italian: case study/ La focalisation contrastive en italien: une etude de cas/ Kontrastivna fokalizacija u talijanskome: prikaz slucaja

Before turning to these extralinguistic properties, I analyze the correlation between the anteposition or postposition of [NP.sub.2] and the dynamicity of the second constituent of the InfC, namely the infinitive itself.

Before concluding this article, I would like to stress that the observed correlations between on the one hand visual perception, the nonsentential nature of the InfC and the postposition of [NP.sub.2] and, on the other hand, between auditory perception, the sentential nature of the InfC and the anteposition of [NP.sub.2] are prototypical correlations which certainly allow exceptions.

It is the general anteposition in French that causes this rather high number of anteposed nondynamic N[P.sub.2]s.

However, the high number of postverbal N[P.sub.2]s with unergative (66.8%) infinitives in Spanish (Table 9) can be explained by the general postposition tendency of this language; the small difference between postposition and anteposition of N[P.sub.2]s accompanied by unaccusative infinitives in French (Table 10) can be explained by the general anteposition of that language.

Keenan (1976) proposes a series of formal indicators of the subject function: verbal agreement, nominative case markings and anteposition.

The syntactic position of the perceived participant as indicator of the internal structure of the Spanish and French infinitival complement