Definitions

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  • adjective Having the ability to catenate, or form chains.

Etymologies

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From Latin catenatus ("chained"), from catēnāre, from catēna ("chain").

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Examples

  • Pullum explains in precise and formal terms: "In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement or a nonfinite catenative complement and prepose them pop them at the front of the clause for a special effect."

    Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008

  • On other occasions Yoda strands auxiliary verbs at the end of a sentence by transposing their catenative components toward the beginning:

    Themes and rhemes and XSV: Smiled as the wonder I pondered 2008

  • On other occasions Yoda strands auxiliary verbs at the end of a sentence by transposing their catenative components toward the beginning:

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Pullum explains in precise and formal terms: "In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement or a nonfinite catenative complement and prepose them pop them at the front of the clause for a special effect."

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

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