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[Handbook of Terminology 1] 2015
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Associative relations and instrumentality in causality

 | KU Leuven
 | KU Leuven
Published online: 13 March 2015
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Article outline
  • 1.Associative relations: Missing links and starting points
  • 2.Systematic accounts of dynamic relations: A short overview
  • 3.Towards a theoretical conceptual framework: Frame semantics and construction grammar
  • 4.Instruments and causality: A theoretical state of affairs
  • 5.Corpus
  • 6.From causal subevents to its parts and back again
    • 6.1Causing events and their subparts
      • 6.1.1Initial state
      • 6.1.2Agents
      • 6.1.3Patients
      • 6.1.4Related instruments
    • 6.2Caused events and their subparts
      • 6.2.1Effects
      • 6.2.2Goals
    • 6.3Sequentiality and global causality
    • 6.4Causality as associative relation embedded in time
      • 6.4.1Reference to time axis
      • 6.4.2Simultaneous multiple instruments
      • 6.4.3Successive multiple instruments
  • 7.Towards rich multidimensional associative templates in terminology
  • References
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