"… and its launch it got."
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There are several different types of "fronting" or "preposing" in English, sometimes categorized in syntactic terms (e.g. wh-movement) and sometimes in pragmatic terms (e.g. topicalization). Here's recent example of a familiar type, for which I don't know a standard name:
The stage was set for Tesla to get its launch, and its launch it got.
That example seems a bit awkward to me, but definitely still possible. Examples where the preposed item is a simpler noun phrase seem to go down a bit easier — for example, substituting "a launch" for "its launch".
The preposed item can be a a verb phrase:
He threatened to leave the meeting, and leave the meeting he did.
She said he'd be writing a letter, and writing a letter he was.
Or an adjective:
I expected them to be angry, and angry they were.
The adverbial version of so is often used in a similar way, often with the background assumed, or expressed across a conversational turn boundary:
So it seems.
So they said.
So we will.
However, scanning various grammars and articles turns up examples but no terminology. Can anyone point us to a standard term? It would be surprising if none exists.
John from Cincinnati said,
June 23, 2025 @ 10:35 am
What about chiasmus: a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form.
Chris Button said,
June 23, 2025 @ 11:03 am
I'm unclear why "topicalization" doesn't suffice.