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In linguistics the catena (Latin for 'chain', plural catenae) is a unit of syntax and morphology, closely associated with dependency grammars. It is a more flexible and inclusive unit than the constituent and may therefore be better suited than the constituent to serve as the fundamental unit of syntactic and morphosyntactic analysis. The catena concept was introduced to linguistics by William O'Grady in 1998〔O'Grady (1998) introduced the catena concept as a basis for his analysis of the syntax of idioms. O'Grady called the relevant syntactic unit a "chain", however, not a "catena". The term ''catena'' was introduced later by Osborne et al. (2012) as a means of avoiding confusion with the preexisting chain concept of Minimalist theory.〕 and has been seized upon by other linguists〔The catena concept has been developed beyond O'Grady's (1998) analysis of idioms. See the following articles: Osborne (2005), Osborne et al. (2011), Osborne (2012), Osborne and Groß (2012a, 2012b), Osborne et al. (2012), and Osborne (2014: 620–624).〕 and applied to the syntax of idiosyncratic meaning of all sorts, such as ellipsis mechanisms (e.g. gapping, stripping, VP-ellipsis, pseudogapping, sluicing, answer ellipsis, comparative deletion), predicate-argument structures, and discontinuities (topicalization, wh-fronting, scrambling, extraposition, etc.). The catena concept has also been taken as the basis for a theory of morphosyntax, i.e. for the extension of dependencies into words; dependencies are acknowledged between the morphs that constitute words.〔Two articles that acknowledge morph catenae, i.e. catenae the links of which are morphs (as opposed to complete words) are Groß and Osborne (2013) and Groß (2014). The former article, which is in German, demonstrates that constructions often consist of morph catenae and the latter article, which is in English, provides a dependency grammar account of clitics based upon the catena.〕 While the catena concept has been applied mainly to the syntax of English, other works are also demonstrating its applicability to the syntax and morphology of other languages.〔Groß and Osborne (2013) demonstrate the applicability of the catena concept to the syntax and morphosyntax of German, and Imrényi (2013a, 2013b: 98–100, 2013c) shows its utility for the analysis of verb combinations and clause structure in Hungarian.〕 ==Definition== :Catena :Any element (word or morph) or any combination of elements that are continuous in the vertical dimension (''y''-axis) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catena (linguistics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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