Hypotaxis
With hypotaxis ( gr ὑπό, hypo, "under" and τάξις, táxis, "order" ) the subordination of subordinate clauses is under Main phrases referred ( hypotactic style). To link the components conjunctions are often used. When using the hypotaxis situations or themes are displayed complex and detailed. Especially by Heinrich von Kleist hypotactic box sets of this style became known. Thomas Mann is also often used hypotactic sentence structures.
The opposite of hypotaxis is the parataxis.
Examples
- Because she wanted to visit her father, she said, as the weekend had approached moved by train to Bolzano.
- The one who the one who has the stake, who stood on the bridge, which is located on the road that leads to Mainz overturned, indicating receives a reward. ( A reward, the person who displays the person who knocked over the pile, which stood on the bridge, which is located on the road that leads to Mainz Or:. . A road leads to Mainz on the road is a bridge on the. bridge stood a pile. someone has knocked over the pile. This appears / to display. The indicator receives a reward. )
- The wife of the Employment Agency, the Friday when you were prevented due to illness [, ] to come to school, there was, has offered to provide training course interested addresses.
- " Those that those who have invented the damn lock picks, do them wrong."
- "I, with my pile of just staying at an inn, and on the place where this idea was going on, was present, was behind all the people at the entrance of a church where I was standing, not hear what this strange woman the men said; such that, as people laughing whispering to each other, they do not share everyone their science, and the due spectacle that was preparing to become very distressed, I make less curious, in fact, as to the curious place rose on a bench that was carved behind me in the church entrance. "
- " Again, [ ... ] a year has passed [ ... ]: gradually this eternal cycle is a little tired of me, to which various factors, the author of I in this context to me no inconvenience, the consequences of that in purchase to would take me, I like to keep peace, forced not foresee would be to suspend, not want to mention, help. "