Editing Hyperbaton (section)

===Other languages===
The classical type of hyperbaton is also found in Slavic languages like Polish:<ref name=Siev>Spevak (2010), p. 23, citing Siewierska, A. (1984).</ref>

{{interlinear|indent=3
|<u>Piękny</u> Markowi kupili <u>obraz</u>
|<u>beautiful</u> {for Mark} {they bought} <u>painting</u>
|"They bought a <u>beautiful painting</u> for Mark."}}

Certain conditions are necessary for hyperbaton to be possible in Polish: discontinuous noun phrases typically contain just one modifier, and the noun and modifier must be separated by a verb (and not, for example, by the indirect object ''Markowi'' alone).<ref name=Siev />

Similar constructions are found in other languages, such as Russian, Latvian, and Modern Greek from which the following example comes:<ref>Ntelitheos (2004), p. 38.</ref>

{{fs interlinear|lang=grc|indent=3
|Το <u>κόκκινο</u> είδα το <u>φόρεμα</u>.
|{{grc-transl|Το}} <u>{{grc-transl|κόκκινο}}</u> {{grc-transl|είδα}} {{grc-transl|το}} <u>{{grc-transl|φόρεμα}}</u>.
|"It is the <u>red dress</u> (''το κόκκινο φόρεμα'') that I saw."}}

Ntelitheos (2004) points out that one condition enabling such constructions is that the adjective is in contrastive focus ("the red dress, not the blue one").