Storing and Sorting - Note No. 2

The narratival structures outlined by Argyros do not provide a model logically powerful enough to explain the equivalency between events and objects.  In Australian aborignial visual designs and storytelling, Nancy Munn reports

[T]here is no clear distinction between actor-action and actor-object constructions, and it is convenient to link them both in one overarching figure type with a general meaning that can be stated as "actor (in relation to)-item" ("actor-item"). (Walbiri Iconography 81).

As a category "relationship" opens up more phenomena to narrativity than that of "action".

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