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01: Note 4

Posted: June 1st, 2012, 10:57 am
by Jonathan Robie
No need to change anything here, is there?

Re: 01: Note 4

Posted: June 4th, 2012, 5:51 pm
by Stephen Carlson
I would just note that "state of affairs" is a technical term in Simon Dik's functional grammar. Other schools of linguistic thought may use terms like "situation" or "eventuality." The basic idea is to find a term that covers both states and actions.