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On the (a)telicity property of English verb phrases
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008 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.
Ilinca Crăiniceanu, Ileana Baciu
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, 2023 Supplementary materials for the project Telicity judgments in L2 English. The materials include: - cloze test used as a proficiency measure - Lists of stimuli for AJT1 and AJT2 - Full results and the LME models used in the statistical analyses ...
María del Pilar García Mayo +1 more
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Telicity judgments in L2 English by L1 Slovak speakers [PDF]
, 2023 The study investigates the acquisition of telicity in L2 English by L1 Slovak speakers as a function of L2 proficiency (measured by a cloze test score), exposure (operationalized as length of stay in an English-speaking country) and instruction type ...
María del Pilar García Mayo +3 more
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The interaction between telicity and agentivity: Experimental evidence from intransitive verbs in German and Chinese [PDF]
, 2021 Telicity and agentivity are semantic factors that split intransitive verbs into (at least two) different classes. Clear-cut unergative verbs, which select the auxiliary HAVE, are assumed to be atelic and agent-selecting; unequivocally unaccusative verbs,
Primus, Beatrice +4 more
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Lexical Features of Verb Aspects in Laki Dialect of Darehshahr (Ilam) [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 :Of the influential features in determining the type of lexical aspect are dynamicity, durativity, telicity, homogeneity and atomicity of the verb.
Yaser Lotfi +3 more
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The relationship between verbal form and event structure in sign languages
Glossa, 2019 Whether predicates describe events as inherently bounded (telic) or unbounded (atelic) is usually understood to be an emergent property that depends on several factors; few, if any, spoken languages have dedicated morphology to mark the distinction.
Andrea D. Sims +3 more
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Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Turkish and Uzbek
Linguistics, 2022 This article explores the relationship between affectedness and Differential Object Marking (DOM) of indefinite direct objects in Turkish and Uzbek. We argue that the distribution of DOM in the two Turkic languages is determined by the direct objects ...
Kizilkaya Semra +2 more
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Lexical aspect and number variation in French Complex Event Nominals
Glossa, 2019 In this work, we examine the factors allowing or disallowing French Complex Event Nominals (CENs, i.e. deverbal nominals displaying argument and aspectual structures, Grimshaw 1990) to occur in the plural when denoting a plurality of events. Our claim is
Marie Laurence Knittel
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Particles and Prefixes in English and Serbian
ELOPE, 2005 The paper attempts to, by means of contrastive analysis, prove that particles belonging to phrasal verbs in English are in their linguistic essence equivalent to Serbian perfective verbal prefixes.
Nataša Milivojević
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Coherence and telicity in adults’ event representations
, 2022 Events are effortlessly segmented out of streaming reality. We can refer to them with verbs, along with aspectual morphemes and adverbs to focalize on specific parts. This suggests that, besides visual clues or statistical structures, also primitives facilitating event individuation may exist.
Gómez Vázquez, Diana +1 more
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