Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: This paper addresses the formal representation of Degree Verbs (DVs), also known as degreeachievements. After assessing the similarities and differences of DVs vis-à-vis the accomplishmentpredicates within the set of “incremental theme verbs”, a double scale system is proposed to account for the telicity calculus. It is shown that DVs should be regarded as telic even though in most cases ,they do not imply culmination, but rather the mere attainment of a “contingent” telos. This formalism can be exploited to account for related phenomena, such as the so-called “conative oblique constructions” and “non-culminating” telic predicates
DOI: 10.7557/1.4.1.3398
Authors: Eugenio Civardi, Pier Marco Bertinetto
Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1705549348