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causal-final (notcomparable)

  1. (linguistics) Pertaining to anycase that indicates theintention of achieving a specific final result.
    • 1982, László Dezső,Typological Studies in Old Serbo-Croatian Syntax, page210:
      The abstract relationship between locative-temporal andcausal-final adverbials is well reflected in their realization in the case system.
    • 1988, Gerd Haverling,Studies on Symmachus' Language and Style, page201:
      There is, from Early Latin onwards, acausal-final use of the preposition de with adjectives like lassus and sollicitus.
    • 1996, H Steinhauer,Papers in Austronesian Linguistics - Volume 3, page197:
      ...everywhere include: benefactive (i.e. the action denoted by the suffix-bearing verb is carried out for the benefit of someone e.g. 'buy for someone'); instrumental (e.g. 'wash with something'); comitative (especially with the semantic shade of taking or carrying somebody, or something, with oneself when moving (e.g. when flying away); also various other situations of doing something together with somebody or something), andcausal-final (i.e. the action is carried out because of something, in view of something, or for something, in order that some event might take place, etc.).
    • 2007, Gergely Toth,Linguistic Interference and First-language Attrition,→ISBN:
      Thecausal-final noun suffix -ért 'for' surfaces in the next sample, in place of an allative -hoz or, alternatively, illative -ba, both 'to'.
    • 2013, Carol H. Rounds,Hungarian: An Essential Grammar,→ISBN, page116:
      The demonstrative pronoun in thecausal-final case azért 'for the (following) reason' introduces clauses of purpose.
  2. Goal-oriented;purposeful as opposed toprescribed.
    • 1972,Psychiatria Fennica: Finnish Psychiatry, page110:
      Generalising slightly it can thus be said that the organic process has itscausal-final explanation and the meaning relationship manifested within the sphere of intentionality has its own structural history.
    • 1997, J. Peter Burgess,Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Postmodern Europe,→ISBN, page76:
      The second type of sustained agency engages a veto by excluding a certain number ofcausal-final acts, which would be out of place, from the calibrated acts of ritual performance.
    • 2012, Ann Crabbé, Pieter Leroy,The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation,→ISBN, page55:
      This substep is not so different from the previous one. Van de Graaf and Hoppe (2000) distinguish betweencausal–final and normative arguments.

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causal-final (uncountable)

  1. (grammar) The causal-finalcase. This case in the Hungarian language combines thecausal 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).
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