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'''Parataxis''' | '''Parataxis''' means little more than 'placing side by side', and is used to a few different more concrete things. | ||
In writing styles: | |||
* a writing style that avoids [[conjunction]]s | * a writing style that avoids [[conjunction]]s | ||
: cf. [[syntaxis]] (favors complex syntax), | : cf. [[syntaxis]] (favors complex syntax), | ||
: cf. [[hypotaxis]] (the explicit ''subordination'' of some word, phrase or clause to another, (only or particularly?{{verify}}) with a conjunction) | : cf. [[hypotaxis]] (the explicit ''subordination'' of some word, phrase or clause to another, (only or particularly?{{verify}}) with a conjunction) | ||
* similarly, ''sentences'' in such and adjacent/related style, e.g. "All humans are mortal. Socrates is a human. Socrates is mortal." | |||
: the hypotaxis style might be "because all people are human, Socrates is also mortal" | |||
In linguistic analysis, parataxis may point to sentence analysis/dependency relations that exist ''by'' being adjacent, ''without'' explicit [[coordination]]/[[conjunction]] {{verify}} | |||
: https://universaldependencies.org/u/dep/parataxis.html | |||
'''Hypotaxis''' then means similar but ''unequal''. | |||
''' | In this context, '''syntaxis''' can refer to using complex, often relatively poetic | ||
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Parataxis means little more than 'placing side by side', and is used to a few different more concrete things.
In writing styles:
- a writing style that avoids conjunctions
- cf. syntaxis (favors complex syntax),
- cf. hypotaxis (the explicit subordination of some word, phrase or clause to another, (only or particularly?(verify)) with a conjunction)
- similarly, sentences in such and adjacent/related style, e.g. "All humans are mortal. Socrates is a human. Socrates is mortal."
- the hypotaxis style might be "because all people are human, Socrates is also mortal"
In linguistic analysis, parataxis may point to sentence analysis/dependency relations that exist by being adjacent, without explicit coordination/conjunction (verify)
Hypotaxis then means similar but unequal.
In this context, syntaxis can refer to using complex, often relatively poetic
See also: