Reinversion

Reinversion is the reverse order of words in a sentence, in which the subject precedes the predicate rather than following it, as in standard order.

Reversible sentences can be formed from inverted sentences, and in reversible sentences the subject usually comes at the end: “It was dark in the hall, but light outside.” In some reversal languages, such as French, reversal phrases can also be formed from direct sentences, for example: “I saw him running.”

In Russian, a reverse sentence can only be formed from a direct one: “He ran, I saw.”

The term "reinverse" is not used in modern linguistics.