2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2012.00172.x
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Catenae: Introducing a Novel Unit of Syntactic Analysis

Abstract: Abstract.  This paper introduces a novel unit of syntactic analysis, the catena (Latin for ‘chain’; plural catenae). The catena is defined in a dependency‐based grammar as a word or a combination of words that is continuous with respect to dominance. According to this definition, any dependency tree or any subtree (complete or partial) of a dependency tree qualifies as a catena. The paper demonstrates that idioms are stored as catenae and that the elided material of ellipsis mechanisms (e.g., answer fragments,… Show more

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“…The only tool used to convey this information is declarative sentences. This is in accordance with Putrayasa (2012Putrayasa ( , 2018a; Huddleston & Uren (1981); and Osborne et al, (2012), that declarative sentences are sentences used to convey news or information. This news sentence is the most widely used in everyday life, both in conveying information that is scientific and non-scientific.…”
Section: Types Of Sentences In Class VI Elementary School Students Insupporting
confidence: 79%
“…The only tool used to convey this information is declarative sentences. This is in accordance with Putrayasa (2012Putrayasa ( , 2018a; Huddleston & Uren (1981); and Osborne et al, (2012), that declarative sentences are sentences used to convey news or information. This news sentence is the most widely used in everyday life, both in conveying information that is scientific and non-scientific.…”
Section: Types Of Sentences In Class VI Elementary School Students Insupporting
confidence: 79%
“…The causal relationship between Dependency Distance Minimization and projectivity is unsettled. Ninio (2017) concludes that "projectivity appears to be not so much a side-effect of DDM as a mathematical requisite for a method to encode a two-dimensional tree in a one-dimensional sentence-string in a way that makes reconstruction possible" (p. 216), appealing to other linguistic structures such as catenae (Osborne et al, 2012) to explain discontinuities. This traditional view-that projectivity exists as a principle independent of DDM-is largely disproven by an analysis which positively correlates dependency distance and the number of crossing dependencies across a variety of multilingual corpora .…”
Section: Projectivitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The basic lexical entries of MDT are multi-word units called groups. Each group represents a catena [11]. Catenae go beyond constituents, including all combinations of elements that are continuous in the vertical dimension within a dependency tree.…”
Section: A Simple Phrasal Lexiconmentioning
confidence: 99%