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Publication details [#7599]

Pike, Evelyn G. 1978. Purposive events as units in the referential hierarchy. Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists/Actes du Congrès International des Linguistes 12 : 567–570.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

event | goal | grammatical case

Annotation

P. points out that the purpose (function or reason) of an event, from the point of view of members of a society, in linguistic referential structure, is comparable to grammatical role or function (case).