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Definition of Hypotaxis
1. Noun. (grammar) Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypotaxis
1. [n -TAXES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypotaxis
Literary usage of Hypotaxis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A School Grammar of Attic Greek by Thomas Dwight Goodell (1902)
"PARATAXIS AND hypotaxis 604 When two sentences, independent in form, are so united
in speaking that one is subordinate to the other in thought, ..."
2. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1910)
"hypotaxis is merely another name for subordination, convenient as marking the
contrast with its opposite parataxis. It must not be thought, however, ..."
3. A French Grammar by Louis Bevier, Thomas Logie (1897)
"All hypotaxis grows out of parataxis. SUBORDINATION OR hypotaxis. 143. Subordinate
clauses are classified according to their functions:— a. ..."
4. A French Grammar by Louis Bevier, Thomas Logie (1896)
"SUBORDINATION OR hypotaxis. 143. Subordinate clauses are classified according to
their functions:— a. Substantive clauses, with the function of a noun. b. ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"A peculiar form of hypotaxis is the English construction in which a noun ...
This type of hypotaxis, is called, by its Greek name, the construction apo ..."
6. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"... construction is replaced by formal hypotaxis with the relative pronoun: Die,
die ich meine, heißt Frau Findeklee. In early N*. ..."
7. Hypnotism; Or, Suggestion and Psychotherapy: A Study of the Psychological by Auguste Forel (1907)
"He carries out hypnosis for the first time quite shortly, and gets the patients
to relate what they felt. He distinguishes hypotaxis ..."
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