Etymology

para-hypotaxis

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Italian paraipotassi
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  1. Italian · calque ofparaipotassi
  2. Italian · calque ofparaipotassi
  3. English todaypara-hypotaxis

Calque 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. By surface analysis, para- + hypotaxis.

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