by Stephen Carlson » June 4th, 2012, 5:51 pm
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.
Stephen C. Carlson, Ph.D. (Duke)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Theology, Uppsala