By Roumyana Slabakova
This article appears to be like on the topic of telicity within the moment language, and comprises such subject matters as: aspectual differences; theories of entry to UG; aspectual semantics; the aspect-related buildings; and primary language acquisition study on point.
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B. I ate the meat raw. The sentences in (46) can only mean that, as a result of my watering, the tulips are now lying flat, and as a result of my cutting, the bread is now sliced thin. The sentences in (47) cannot mean that as a result of my cutting, the bread is now hot, and as a result of my eating, the meat became raw. They can only describe the state of the bread and the meat during the processes of cutting and eating. The most important syntactic distinction between resultatives and depictives is that resultatives cannot be predicated of the subject, while depictives can be predicated of the subject and the object.
Mary ran for an hour. *Mary drew a circle for ten minutes. *Mary died for two years. The durative adverbial phrase acts as a measure of temporal quantity and indicates that a property P (or a process) holds without change throughout the specified interval. Thus, only non-branching sub-event structures appear to Semantic and syntactic treatments of telicity license such modification, since branching structures by definition encode an opposition between two “states,” or a change of state. 4 Event structure as in (17d) also predicts that accomplishments would license modification of only one of their subevents, which is exemplified in (19).
Mary died in an hour. Unlike duratives, frame adverbials select for the event type Transition. They require two sub-events, e and e¢, and take as their argument the temporal distance between the sub-events, or the time between the onset of e and e¢. , [¬closed (the-door)] and [closed (the-door)]. That is why only branching subevent structures are grammatical with in X time frame adverbials. The final piece of evidence for sub-event structure that I will discuss involves ambiguity with the adverbs rudely and almost (see also McConnellGinet 1982; Higginbotham 1989 for different analyses).