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telicity: a standalone construct

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Semantics

the property of a predicate describing an event with a natural endpoint, linked to how the object or path measures out the event.

In semantics, telicity refers to the property of a predicate describing an event with a natural endpoint, linked to how the object or path measures out the event. This meaning comes from Krifka (1998) in Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy.[1]

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event3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs natural3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs object4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Krifka, M. (1998). The Origins of Telicity. In Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (pp. 197-235). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4_9

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