The twenty-two prose-poem revisions fall between disjunctive textual synthesis and nuanced hypotactic collage. From Wordnik.com. [/ubu Editions, Third Series: 12 New Titles : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
If the syntax of the story has to this point been hypotactic to an almost absurd degree (even for German), the sentences suddenly become simpler, even paratactic. From Wordnik.com. [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference
In these terms, the hypotactic grammar of the first section of the story is eventually brought low by the tap tap of a paratactic specter that reduces everything to ruinous confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference
As elaborate as the hypotactic constructions they facilitate may be, Kleist's conjunctions never turn into substantives, and und in particular never assumes a coherent form — as, for example, a Hund. From Wordnik.com. [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference
The fragmentary aspect of the whole is made more obvious still by the hypotactic manner that prevails in each of the essays taken in isolation, by the continued attempt, however ironized, to present a closed and linear argument. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...''] Reference
As Emil Staiger has observed, the tale's first fourteen sentences are organized by a hypotactic grammar in which the responsibilities of the comma, the semi-colon, and the colon are pushed to the limits of what the German language will allow (5). From Wordnik.com. [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference
2 min "Having had my pomposities pricked by your bad self in the previous MBM, thought I'd try to contribute something less preening, purprle and hypotactic than my usual adjectival galores," says Philip Podolsky. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
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