corresponds to the two-word predicate in German. Each predicate shown and each of its arguments shown is a catena. The next example is similar, but this time a French sentence is used to make the point: The matrix predicates are again in green, and their arguments in red. The arrow dependency edge marks an adjunct—this convention was not employed in the examples further above. In this case, the main predicate in English consists of two words corresponding to one word in French. The next examples delivers a sense of the manner in which the main sentence predicate remains a catena as the number of auxiliary verbs increases: Sentence a contains one auxiliary verb, sentence b two, and sentence c three. The appearance of these auxiliary verbs adds functional information to the core content provided by the content verb revised. As each additional auxiliary verb is added, the predicate grows, the predicate catena gaining links. When assessing the approach to predicate–argument structures in terms of catenae, it is important to keep in mind that the constituent unit of phrase structure grammar is much less helpful in characterizing the actual word combinations that qualify as predicates and their arguments. This fact should be evident from the examples here, where the word combinations in green would not qualify as constituents in phrase structure grammars. See also Dependency grammar Recursive categorical syntax Notes References O'Grady, W. 1998. The syntax of idioms. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16. 279–312. Groß, T. 2014. Clitics in dependency morphology. In Linguistics Today Vol. 215: Dependency Linguistics, ed. by E. Hajičová et al., pp. 229–252. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. Groß, T. and T. Osborne 2013. Katena und Konstruktion: Ein Vorschlag zu einer dependenziellen Konstruktionsgrammatik. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 32, 1, 41–73. Imrényi, A. 2013a. The syntax of Hungarian auxiliaries: a dependency grammar account. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (DepLing 2013). Prague, August 27–30, 2013. Charles University in Prague / Matfyzpress. 118–127. Imrényi A. 2013b. A magyar mondat viszonyhálózati modellje. (A relational network model of the Hungarian clause.) Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. (154 pages). Imrényi, A. 2013c. Constituency or dependency? Notes on Sámuel Brassai's syntactic model of Hungarian. In: Szigetvári, Péter (ed.), VLlxx. Papers Presented to László Varga on his 70th Birthday. Budapest: Tinta. 167–182. Kunze, J. 1975. Abhängigkeitsgrammatik. Studia Grammatica XII. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Osborne, T. 2005. Beyond the constituent: A DG analysis of chains. Folia Linguistica