subordinative


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serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause

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As explained before, the term 'coordinated', employed in this quotation, should be understood as 'juxtaposed', because the relationship established between pictures may be either coordinative or subordinative. Excellent examples of these texts can be found in the comic-strip series Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (19851995), Peanuts by Charles Schultz (1950-2000), or Garfield by Jim Davis (1978-2013).
With their emphasis on particularity of words and terms, philology and rhetoric are forms of skepticism in that they force the subordinative of beliefs and claims to the expense of language.
The former argument is supported further by a long subordinative structure, in which many premises are left unexpressed (but are reconstructible on the basis of the entire discussion or general background knowledge).
In addition to the emphatic and mystically tinged postulation of the supreme God, the affinity of the positions was suggested by the triadic schemas of thought used by both, and of course, by the comprehension of Jesus as the incarnation of the Word of the God which dovetailed nicely with the Neoplatonic theory of logos, supporting the so-called early Christian logos-theology--in fact a further reason for the consolidation of subordinative argument in early Christianity.
Thus, the attributive part of the term is subordinative, and, expressing the qualitative relation to the object, determines the meaning of the nucleus, making the word combination the term.
Although courts and scholars often invoke Brown for the principle that states are prohibited from classifying on the basis of race, the Brown opinion, in order to overrule Plessy, relied instead on evidence of the stigmatic and subordinative effect that segregation has on minority schoolchildren, thus concluding that "in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place." (179) As furious controversy and debate ensued over the Court's reliance on this social science evidence, southerners resisted attempts to enforce Brown in other areas by insisting that such harms were not present in other contexts, or that integration may cause greater psychological or social harms than racial segregation.