parataxis

Examples

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• Such passages look strange to modern readers because we have moved away from parataxis and toward hypotaxis.

  Academic text (2005)

• Whatever the source of his parataxis, it has nothing to do with montage.

  Academic text (1998)

• Notice that the repeated parataxis gives this passage a certain mechanical quality.

  Academic text (1990)

• While the use of hypotaxis can slow down the pace of a passage, the use of parataxis can speed it up.

  Academic text (1997)

• Here it is useful to recap briefly three kinds of arguments or assumptions, coming from very different branches of academic culture, about the use of and or parataxis.

  Academic text (2005)

• The structure of this grammar, as Lord points out, is basically one of parataxis, at least in terms of the surface "rhapsodizing," or stitching together of the song (65).

  Academic text (1993)

• Parataxis, conventional end-stopped lines and enjambment, narrative description, metaphor and metonymies are all part of a process towards confronting hierarchies and imposed structures.

  Academic text (2009)

• This essay discusses Chandler's sense that he was writing in a particularly American idiom; it analyzes his sentence length and structure, use of parataxis, and use of verbs, as well as how Chandler's style related to various characterizations of modern American prose style.

  Academic text (2005)

• The writer's style featured parataxis, placing thoughts side by side without any connecting words.

• He explained how parataxis differs from hypotaxis, emphasizing the lack of conjunctions in the former.

How Connected

hypotaxis

• Specialized

9.9

coordination

• Specialized

1 3.1

parataxis

• Specialized

9.9

asyndeton

• Literature

9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology