Doran (2021):
Blogger Comments:
To be clear, the additional claims here are that
- parataxis, hypotaxis and phoric covariate are univariate structures,
- expectancy covariate, hypotaxis and phoric covariate are covariate and non-structural, and
- subjacency duplexes are subjacent.
With regard to the first claim, parataxis and hypotaxis are indeed degrees of interdependency in univariate structures, but what Doran has relabelled here as hypotaxis was presented as a relation between Classifiers within a nominal group, which is neither univariate nor a (complete) structure. A further problem here is that phoric covariate, which has not been argued for, is not a type of structure, and as such, is not a univariate structure.
With regard to the second claim, there is the basic self-contradiction of glossing (what have been presented as) covariate structures as non-structural. Moreover, neither hypotaxis nor what Doran calls 'hypotaxis' (a relation between Classifiers) is either covariate or non-structural.
The third claim is merely tautological, since it is 'needlessly repetitive without adding information or clarity'.