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Metathesis (; from Greek μετάθεσις, from μετατίθημι "I put in a different order"; Latin: ''trānspositiō'') is the re-arranging of sounds or syllables in a word, or of words in a sentence. Most commonly it refers to the switching of two or more contiguous sounds, known as adjacent metathesis or local metathesis: * foliage > * *foilage * cavalry > * *calvary Metathesis may also involve switching non-contiguous sounds, known as nonadjacent metathesis, long-distance metathesis,〔 or hyperthesis: * Latin parabola > Spanish palabra 'word' * Latin miraculum > Spanish milagro 'miracle' * Latin periculum > Spanish peligro 'danger, peril' * Latin crocodilus > Italian coccodrillo 'crocodile' Many languages have words that show this phenomenon, and some use it as a regular part of their grammar, such as in Hebrew and the Fur language. The process of metathesis has altered the shape of many familiar words in the English language, as well. The original form before metathesis may be deduced from older forms of words in the language's lexicon, or, if no forms are preserved, from phonological reconstruction. In some cases, including English "ask" (see below), it is not possible to settle with certainty on the original version. ==Rhetorical metathesis== Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a historian and scholar in rhetoric living in 1st century BC Greece. He analysed classical texts and applied several revisions to make them sound more eloquent. One of the methods he used was re-writing documents on a mainly grammatical level: changing word and sentence orders would make texts more fluent and 'natural', he suggested. He called this way of re-writing ''metathesis''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metathesis (linguistics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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