Event (definition)

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a term used to analyze a sentence semantically as an element expressing action accompanying a verb. It also seems “empty” of action meaning. Ex. The assassination that happened yesterday.

References

Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.