(By Sonia Cristofaro): "This chapter investigates the form of the verb in purpose clauses. Following a common practice in typological research (see among others Stassen 1985 and Croft 1990: ch.1), purpose clauses are defined in functional rather than morphosyntactic terms, as the latter turn out to be of restricted applicability in cross-linguistic comparison. A purpose construction is regarded as one encoding a particular relation between events. This relation is such that one of the linked events (the one coded by the main clause, or the main event) is performed with the goal of obtaining the realization of another one (the one coded by the purpose clause, or the dependent event). Typical cases of purpose relations involve motion predicates in the main event, as in (1). In this case, main and dependent event share a participant. However, non-motion predicates may also be involved, in which case main and dependent event need not share a participant..."