Zeroing in on Latin asyndesis

The manifestations of Latin asyndesis, traditionally discussed in the framework of stylistics, are here grouped into three major classes: (a) occasional absence of connectors, testifying to personal-style preferences or belonging to specific registers and genres and characterizing stages of the language; (b) invariable lack of connectors in well-defined syntactic environments which consistently exclude the use of intersentential connectors; and (c) linguistically pertinent non-connection, which is hereunder exemplified in two Latin syntactic patterns; such absence of connector is shown to participate in paradigms of connectors (established by means of collocability and exclusion): zero constitutes a legitimate member of the paradigm of Latin apodotic superordinators and the paradigm of Latin epitaxis-introductory elements.