She employed, not from any refinement of style, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captive] Reference

It is more natural to take this as an anacoluthon.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference

Presupposition doesn't enter into the definition of anacoluthon.    From Wordnik.com.  [On anacolutha] Reference

We've talked about anacoluthon before, in this blog, and here's another instance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

I can see where they're coming from, but I'd read it as a confusion in composition, almost an anacoluthon.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SOME OF WHOM HAVING.] Reference

This, incidentally, is J.A. Cuddon's very simple definition of an anacoluthon in his Dictionary of Literary Terms.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Proust's Way?': An Exchange] Reference

Aciman's reading is "My mother, when it was a question ..., my father replied ...," which would indeed contain an anacoluthon.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Proust's Way?': An Exchange] Reference

What we have is technically described as an anacoluthon, defined eg by the OED as 'a construction lacking grammatical sequence'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

You can have cases of anacoluthon which retain the entire semantic content of the target sentences because only grammatical elements have been affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [On anacolutha] Reference

Now you point it out, it does read like the sort of rethink that would go on in speech I've talked about this before on the blog, in relation to anacoluthon.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the biggest load of rubbish...] Reference

There are usual several ways of resolving an anacoluthon, and yours is another - but there'd have to be a semi-colon or something beforehand, to avoid a reading miscue.    From Wordnik.com.  [On anacolutha] Reference

If you want to put it in terms of deviations and norms, then anacoluthon is more like the deviant conflation of two syntactic norms, or the interference of one syntactic norm by another.    From Wordnik.com.  [On anacolutha] Reference

When writing in this way he is in fact often using grammatical-rhetorical figures which can easily look like mere carelessness to an untutored eye but which receive high literary sanction from classical sources and are employed by him artfully (e.g. anacoluthon).    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Gottfried von Herder] Reference

Its introduction creates a sort of anacoluthon, and throws great stress on the negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esther] Reference

It is seldom that we meet with so violent an anacoluthon as the following in the N.T.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference

Confessing an anacoluthon, or substitution of a new construction for the one started with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dashes.] Reference

This verse really presents an anacoluthon because of the absolute nominative which stands first: habba'im, "those that came.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

At the beginning of this statement some claim to have found an anacoluthon "expressing the polite embarrassment of the speaker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

A extended stay la unuttered told anacoluthon to selva grilled stonemason or easterner for the cat to get ensuing and modernness valiantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

There was probably an anacoluthon in the sentence originally, which transcribers would not let be; but tried by various devices to palliate or remove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.] Reference

However, the anacoluthon makes very smooth reading and not only presents no difficulty but stresses with particular clearness the voluntary approach of those whom Noah was bidden to gather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

His moral life is one vast anacoluthon in which the final term is left out that might have given sense to the whole, one vast ellipsis in which custom seems to bridge the chasm left between ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

N. - foreign to a certain locality; geographically impossible adj. - out of (chronological) order; out of date. anacoluthon.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

So, technically, yes, it is an absolute construction and thus not ungrammatical; but because it changes subjects midway and takes ” perhaps I should say deviates into ” a totally unexpected direction, it has to be an anacoluthon.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Proust's Way?': An Exchange] Reference

"Which," said Mrs Bowldler in magnificent anacoluthon, "if we see it as we ought, this bein 'no ordinary occasion, but in a manner of speakin' one of Potentates and Powers and of our feelin's in connection therewith; by which I allude to our beloved Queen, whom Gawd preserve!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hocken and Hunken] Reference

I'm an anacoluthon woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferule & Fescue] Reference

Such an anacoluthon indeed as the following.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference

= An anacoluthon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

Previous foregone peritomy circumcision ....... periscopy circumspection ....... anacoluthon non sequitur ....... polyglot/pangloss multilingual.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference