causal-final

adj

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to any case that indicates the intention of achieving a specific final result.

    • The abstract relationship between locative-temporal and causal-final adverbials is well reflected in their realization in the case system.
    • There is, from Early Latin onwards, a causal-final use of the preposition de with adjectives like lassus and sollicitus.
  2. Goal-oriented

    Goal-oriented; purposeful as opposed to prescribed.

    • Generalising slightly it can thus be said that the organic process has its causal-final explanation and the meaning relationship manifested within the sphere of intentionality has its own structural history.
    • The second type of sustained agency engages a veto by excluding a certain number of causal-final acts, which would be out of place, from the calibrated acts of ritual performance.
    • This substep is not so different from the previous one. Van de Graaf and Hoppe (2000) distinguish between causal–final and normative arguments.
  3. The causal-final case. This case in the Hungarian language combines the causal case and…

    The causal-final case. This case in the Hungarian language combines the causal case and the final case. It can express the cause of emotions (e.g. value someone for something) or the goal of actions (e.g. "kenyérért" for bread).

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for causal-final. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA