parataxisn.
/ˌparəˈtaksɪs/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈtæksəs/ Grammar.
The placing of propositions or clauses one after another, without indicating by connecting words the relation (of coordination or subordination) between them, as in Tell me, how are you?.
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parataxis1837
1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 A166/2 The term Parataxis..had already with the ancients a distinct..meaning.
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 887/2 Parataxis... The mere ranging of propositions one after another, as the corresponding judgements present themselves to our mind, without marking their dependence on each other by way of consequence or the like.
1888 A. Lang et al. tr. Homer Iliad II. 414 A good instance of primitive parataxis, two clauses being merely set side by side.
1919 Mod. Lang. Notes 34 133 In all the instances of such asyndetic parataxis..the two coördinate members are synonymous.
1946 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1945 131 The contact-clause (Jespersen's term), i.e. parataxis with omission of that in indirect statement and with the omission of the relative pronoun when object of a verb, e.g. the man I saw.
1999 Amer. Lit. 71 311 Fulton's linkage, through parataxis, of her sense of poetic outsiderhood..with an assertion of her position outside conventional gender configurations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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