hypotactic, parataxis.explored the complex relationship between the artist and her late sister Devonia through a juxtaposition with the troubled story of the royal sisters Nefertiti and Mutnedjmet of ancient Egypt.Credit...

Lorraine O’Grady’s performance in “Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline” in 1981 explored the complex relationship between the artist and her late sister Devonia through a juxtaposition with the troubled story of the royal sisters Nefertiti and Mutnedjmet of ancient Egypt.Credit...Naima Green for The New York Times

hy・po・tax・is

n. Grammar.

The dependent or subordinate relationship of clauses with connectives.

[Greek hupotaxis, subjection, from hupotassein, to arrange under : hupo-, hypo- + tassein, tag-, to arrange.]

━━ n. 【文法】従属（構文） ((cf. parataxis)).

hypotactic, marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them: ‘I am tired because it is hot.’ Such use of syntactic subordination of one clause to another is known as hypotaxis. The opposite kind of construction, referred to as paratactic, simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences: ‘I am tired; it is hot’.

See also syntax.

para・taxis

n.

The juxtaposition of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions, as It was cold; the snows came.

[Greek, a placing side by side, from paratassein, to arrange side by side : para-, beside; see para–¹ + tassein, tag-, to arrange.]

━━ n. 【文法】並列（構文）.

Wikipedia article "Parataxis (grammar)".