Conlangery #137: Telicity and Lexical Aspect

George and William come back to talk about telicity and lexical aspect. Listen to us talk about endpoints in events and puzzle over why achievement and accomplishment are supposed to mean different things.

Links and Resources:

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• Aoki, N., & Nakatani, K. (2013). Process, Telicity, and Event Cancellability in Japanese : A Questionnaire Study. Journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 30, 257–263.
• Kato, A. (2014). Event cancellation in Burmese. In 24th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Yangon Event (pp. 1–15).
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• Lares, E. (2014). Observations about the Aspectual Structure of VO Idioms. In LSO Working Papers in Linguistics 11 (pp. 1–15).
• Levin, B. (2007). The Lexical Semantics of Verbs II : Aspectual Approaches to Lexical Semantic Representation. LSA, (3), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.2307/416485
• Maier, E. H. (2004). Above or Below: Modeling a Telicity Restriction on Karuk Directional Applicatives. Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 2, 317–330.
• Sahoo, K. (2012). Telicity vs. perfectivity: A case study of odia complex predicates. SKY Journal of Linguistics, 25(2012), 273–284.
• Santiago, P. J. (2003). Event Cancellation and Telicity in Tagalog. In Program for the 150th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (pp. 388–399).