Strangely-Ordered Sentences vs. Attributive Phrases


So actually rather often in Japanese music, I see phrases like this:

汚れきった言葉を

with some sort of verb modifying the noun, and with the noun having the direct
object particle, but no verb. I always assumed this was more of a sentence out
of order than a noun with an attributive phrase, as in "The words were
dirtied." But is it more of a noun with an attributive phrase, as in, "The
dirty word?" Is it a sentence out of order, or simply a noun with a modifier
and perhaps and inferred word?

Thank you for your help!




I would say that this is a phrase where the final verb is omitted. We could
expect the complete phrase to be something like 汚れきった言葉を言う. But here, the
final verb is omitted, because the context of the previous sentences is clear
enough, I guess.

