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Telicity and Terminativity
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The terms “telicity” and “terminativity” are used to denote the component of the (lexical) semantic makeup of verbs, verb phrases, sentences, and/or situations relating to their being or not being goal oriented, and so to their (in)completability, their (un)boundedness (Dahl 1981: 83). Although often considered synonymous, the terms have different origins and have been differently defined.…

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Genis, René, “Telicity and Terminativity”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief Marc L. Greenberg. Consulted online on 07 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_038611>
First published online: 2021



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