Non-culminating accomplishments

Bibliographic Data

ID4890652
AuthorsFabienne Martins (0000-0003-0191-654X, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume13
Issue8
Publication date2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Linguistics Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-818X • E-ISSN: 1749-818X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/lnc3.12346
OpenAlexW2979526929
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited57

This paper focuses on non-culminating accomplishments and distinguishes them from accomplishments used atelically. It delineates two different sources of event culmination denials after non-progressive accomplishment sentences, namely, the perfective or a modal operator encoded in the VP. Furthermore, it argues that non-culminating accomplishments also differ from non-maximal accomplishments, which entail event culmination relative to a coarse granularity level, but allow culmination denials relative to a finer granularity level,viathe non-maximal use of the (in-)definite description used to introduce the incremental theme argument

Culmination · Granularity · Linguistics · Modal · Physics · Programming language · World Wide Web · Computer Science · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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