designating or using a style in which sentences or elements within sentences are set down successively with little or no indication of their relationship
Derived forms
paratactically (ˌparaˈtactically)
adjective
Examples of 'paratactic' in a sentence
paratactic
Paratactic constructions are divided into asyndetic and syndetic constructions.
Castro Damaris 2010, 'The complex clause in Boruca', Forma y Funciónhttp://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/formayfuncion/article/view/23849. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The present study concentrates on the behavior of complex clauses, following a major distinction between paratactic and hypotactic constructions.
Damaris Castro 2010, 'THE COMPLEX CLAUSE IN BORUCA', Forma y Funciónhttp://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-338X2010000200001&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This results in a sequential and paratactic, rather than causal and hierarchical, presentation of memorial material.
Inge van de Ven 2016, 'Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle and the Serial Self', Betweenhttp://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/2086. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)