The english verb

... on the level of the clause (which refers to actualization), the indication of the full length of a situation can also be the result of measuring the situation when the endpoint of the actualization ... result of this kind of measuring, it renders the clause (and the actualizing situation referred to) bounded, but it does not affect the atelic nature of t...

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... the VP is atelic It is irrelevant to this whether the three people walked together or one after another Since walk is atelic, the situation of the third person walking has no inherent point of ... was in the library suggests that the proposition ‘John be in the library’ only applies in the past and not in the present, i e that the situation is no longer actualizing at...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... does not alter the fact, though, that in nonprogressive clauses the (a)telic nature of the VP is one of the strongest factors determining the (non)boundedness of the sentence using the VP in question.) ... run a marathon.) Until a couple of years ago I knew the answer to that question (L-bounded: the until-adverbial specifies the endpoint of the actualization...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... from the fact that the nature of the subject NP may affect the interpretation of the actualization of a situation as homogeneous or not, it is often not possible to decide on the homogeneity of ... drink a glass of beer, in which no single part of the situation constitutes a full instance of drinking a glass of beer) Some of the information which determines...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20