para-hypotaxis
A clause-linkage strategy intermediate between parataxis and hypotaxis, in which a…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.
Meaning
1 senses(rare, uncountable)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.
Origin
Calque of Italian paraipotassi. From para- + ipotassi (“hypotaxis”), with para- evoking paCalque of Italian paraipotassi. From para- + ipotassi (“hypotaxis”), with para- evoking paratassi (“parataxis”), naming a construction intermediate between parataxis and hypotaxis. Coined by Italian Romance philologist Luigi Sorrento in 1929.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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