1. catena - Noun
2. Catena - Proper noun
A chain or series of things connected with each other.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA relatively recent (1998) development in the syntactic analysis of idioms departs from a constituent-based account of syntactic structure, preferring instead the catena -based account. Source: Internet
Any word or any combination of words that are linked together by dependencies qualifies as a catena. Source: Internet
Billy Lee was among the winners again on the all-weather at Dundalk on Wednesday where he partnered the Henry de Bromhead-trained Catena Zapata to land the two-year-old conditions’ race over a mile. Source: Internet
Catena and Cordova said the OEO keeps a database of people who have had complaints and sustained findings against them. Source: Internet
The periphrastic verb combinations in the example just given are represented now using the dependency grammar tree of the sentence; the verb catena is in green: Dependency trees like the ones here can be found, for instance, in Osborne and Groß (2012). Source: Internet
For a definition of the catena and discussion, see Osborne and Groß (2012:173ff.). Source: Internet