having rendered obsolete a once-dominant view

[theol]

"The serious study of popular culture by intellectuals is regularly credited with having rendered obsolete a once-dominant view that popular culture is inherently inferior to high art."

What sentence structure is used in "rendered obsolete a once-dominant view"?
Inversion?

Would you mind referring me to some websites talking about this sentence structure (verb + adjective + noun) that I can take a closer look of it.
I have searched for it but found nothing, possibly I used the wrong terms to google it.
Thanks.

 

[jutfrank]

It's a kind of inversion, I suppose, yes. The direct object (a once-dominant view) of the verb (rendered) , and the object complement (obsolete) are in inverted positions.

... rendered a once-dominant view obsolete [normal word order]
... rendered obsolete a once-dominant view [alternative word order]

I don't know whether grammarians have a special term for this.

 

[emsr2d2]

Theol, please note that I have changed your thread title. Titles should be unique and relevant to the thread, and should include some/all of the words/phrases you are asking us about. Your actual question should have appeared in the main body of the text.

 

[Rover_KE]

theol, always tell us the source and author of any text you quote, please.

 

[PaulMatthews]

No, not inversion but object postposing. The underlying sentence structure is S-V-PC-Od.

… regularly credited with having rendered obsolete a once-dominant view that popular culture is inherently inferior to high art."

Here, the very long direct object of “rendered” ("a once-dominant view that popular culture is inherently inferior to high art”) is moved over the predicative adjective “obsolete”. The default (non-postposed) version is

…. regularly credited with having rendered a once-dominant view that popular culture is inherently inferior to high art obsolete.

Postposing of the direct object is clearly motivated by its ‘weight’ (length and complexity). As the default version show, the predicative is a considerable distance from the verb that it complements, making the sentence difficult to process.

 

[Tdol]

Placing obsolete after high art, would make it much harder to understand.