Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages
The term "para-hypotaxis" is commonly used by Romance linguists to refer to sentences containing a proleptic dependent clause, with the main clause introduced by a coordinator.
Luca Ciucci
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When hypotaxis looks like parataxis: embedding and complementizer agreement in Teiwa
Teiwa, an Alor-Pantar language of the Trans-New Guinea family, has been characterized as expressing speech reports not with complementation, but with combinations of two clauses juxtaposed under a single intonation contour with no morphological ...
Uli Sauerland, František KratochvÍl
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Causal-implicative relationships in the Serbian hypotaxis (Complex of generative complex sentences) [PDF]
The paper analyzes the causal-implicative relationships in the segmented complex sentences with a “closed” (asymmetric, mandatory bi-situational) generative (conditional) semantic structure on the corpus of the Serbian language.
Vojvodić Dojčil P.
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Logics of Discovery II: Lessons from Poetry—Parataxis as a Method That Can Complement the Narrative Compulsion in Vogue in Contemporary Mental Health Care [PDF]
This paper highlights the limitations of narrative logic in mental health care, and in particular of “narrative vigilance”—the tendency to watch over experience via narrativisation, and to tether the concrete particulars of experience to the hypothetical
Giovanni Stanghellini
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Development of Clause Complexity in Children with Specific Language Impairment/Language Development Disorder: A Longitudinal Study [PDF]
This paper addresses the grammatical challenges associated with the development of clause complexity, focusing on the performance of a group of monolingual Spanish-speaking schoolchildren with Specific Language Impairment/Developmental Language Disorder (
Claudia Araya +3 more
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A theory of the origin of hypotaxis. [PDF]
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Parataxis or hypotaxis? Choices of taxis in Chinese–English translation
Adopting a Systemic Functional Linguistic approach, the article investigates choices of taxis in Chinese-to-English translation. Previous studies have proposed that Chinese texts tend to favor parataxis more than hypotaxis, and translators are often advised to change the paratactic relation to hypotactic ones in the process of translation. Against such
Xueying Li, Hailing Yu
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Conflicting opinions: circumstancial hypotaxis as an argumentative strategy
This article proposes a syntactic-discursive analysis of hypotatical clauses, based on journalistic opinion articles. In this sense, we consider not only the microtextual level, based on the clauses and connectors that introduce them, but also the ...
Amanda Heiderich Marchon +1 more
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Parataxis and hypotaxis in modern Chinese [PDF]
The paratactic features of Chinese has been specifically discussed and emphasized by linguists in the past decades and, particularly on the issue of Chinese-English translation, a comparative analysis on the paratactic Chinese and hypotactic English has ...
Tse, YK
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SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC SYNCRETISM OF THE WORD ВЕДЬ AT THE LEVEL OF HYPOTAXIS
The paper is devoted to the role of the word ведь in the organization of a subordinate syntactic connection between sentences. The work is carried out within the study of the expression of relations of conditioning through complex sentences in works of the book style – scientific and publicistic.
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