para-hypotaxis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
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Meaning
noun
A clause-linkage strategy intermediate between parataxis and hypotaxis, in which a proleptic subordinate clause is joined to its main clause by a coordinating conjunction.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Traditionally considered as an idiosyncratic feature of the Old Romance languages (as well as Biblical Hebrew, Greek and Latin), para-hypotaxis has recently been discovered in at least one modern, genetically unrelated language (Swahili)."
- "Instances of this phenomenon, often referred to as "para-hypotaxis," are reported from nearly every period of Latin literature, from Plautus onwards, but most of them go back to later times, particularly to Christian authors."
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parahypotactic