Hypotaxis

Hypotaxis

Hypotaxis is the grammatical arrangement of functionally similar but "unequal" constructs ("hypo"="beneath", "taxis"="arrangement"), i.e., constructs playing an inequal role in a sentence.

A common example of syntactic expression of hypotaxis is subordination in a complex sentence.

Another example is observed in premodification. In the phrase "inexpensive composite materials", "composite" modifies "materials" while "inexpensive" modifies the complex head "composite materials" , rather than "composite" or "materials". In this example the phrase units are hierarchically structured, rather than being on the same level, as compared to the example "Cockroaches love warm, damp, dark places". Notice the syntactic difference: hypotaxic modifiers cannot be separated by commas.

A classical example of verbal hypotaxis, unobservable in English, is the Greek phrase "Molon labe".

ee also

*Parataxis
*Parataxis (grammar)


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