Hypotaxis [fr. Gk. subjection, fr. hypotassein to arrange under] : syntactic subordination (as by a conjunction). So in grammar, the syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another. This article is about grammar from a linguistic perspective. ...
Antonym: parataxis Example: Tommy, who was eight at the time, stepped on a cheerio; The woman, from the working office, who on Friday, where you could not be at school because of your sickness, was here, has offered to give addresses for trainings to the students. Parataxis (contrasted to syntaxis) is a writing or rhetorical style that favors short, simple sentences, often without the use of conjunctions. ...
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HYPOTAXIS & PARATAXIS: Image-based and narrative-based poetry compares & contrasts how these terms are used by poets & how they may shape a poetics
Of course, there were some, mainly in the 19th c, who still believed, quite speculatively, that the *grammatical* complexity of a language is related to the complexity (in their view) of the society which speaks it.
They were inclined to identify that complexity with hypotaxis in grammar, no doubt because literacy, a feature of relatively complex societies (though not necessarily all such societies), favors more than speech the use of hypotaxis (but as a matter of *frequency*, for the most part).
Such believers were inclined to suppose that their inability to reconstruct the precise form of the relativisation process in Proto-IE was an indication that it did not exist in IE, and that the attested languages independently evolved the process (though not necessarily as the result of literacy).
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