hypotactic (adj.)

A term used in TRADITIONAL GRAMMATICAL analysis, and often found in DESCRIPTIVE linguistic studies, to refer to DEPENDENT CONSTRUCTIONS, especially those where CONSTITUENTS have been linked through the use of SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS. ‘Hypotactic constructions’ are opposed to PARATACTIC ones, where the linkage is conveyed solely by juxtaposition and punctuation/INTONATION. Hypotaxis is illustrated by The keeper laughed when the dog barked (cf. the keeper laughed; the dog barked).