Orações entrelaçadas: uma ilusão hipotática

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.111112517032

• Palavras-chave: “orações entrelaçadas”; Sintaxe; parataxe.

• Keywords: “intertwined clauses”; Syntax; parataxis.

• Abstract: In this paper, I intend to deconstruct the idea that there is in the Language, from its Latin aspect, a certain relationship of clauses according to which the relative pronoun would be limited to acting as nothing more than a connecting element in the clause that it heads, being a component of the so-called “subordinate” clause to this one, which configures the perception that there would be a certain interweaving between the clauses involved, which have conventionally been called intertwined clauses. In an attempt to deconstruct this idea, I oppose traditional Grammaticography, thus relying methodologically on the analysis I propose for the arrangement of those sentences, as well as assuming, theoretically, the validity of (re)attributing a certain semantic complexion to what it grammatical tradition understands as integrating conjunction (the “conjunction” that “integrates” the clause “subordinate” to the relative) and to the relative pronoun itself, elements traditionally considered “grammatical words”, in themselves “empty of meaning”; the denial of this consideration serves me as the basis of what I propose. Fundamentally, I remove the “subordination versus coordination” dichotomy from the analysis by postulating the ancestry of parataxis as sufficient for the appreciation of the ontogenesis of Language and, particularly here, for the revision of what is perceived as interweaving because it is not perceived as a paratactic apposition.