On the (a)telicity property of English verb phrases

The aim of the paper is that of offering an overview of various executions of the aspectual notions of (a)telicity in the current literature. The core idea is that in English the telic-atelic contrast is compositionally computed at the level of VP or IP. We discuss (a)telicity of complete VPs in the...

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Main Authors: Ilinca Crăiniceanu, Ileana Baciu
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2008-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
Subjects:
(a)telic predicates
quantization
cumulativity
event maximalization
incremental homogeneity
Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/on_the_atelicity_property_of_english_verb_phrases
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