Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments

Tatevosov, Sergei; Ivanov, Mikhail

doi:10.1075/la.148.05tat

In:Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality
Edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 148] 2009
► pp. 83–130

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Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments

Sergei Tatevosov | Moscow State University

Mikhail Ivanov | Moscow State University

Published online: 30 November 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.148.05tat

In this paper, we examine failed attempt and partial success interpretations of accomplishment verbs cross-linguistically. We observe that accomplishments differ systematically as to which of these readings they can produce. Relying on Rothstein’s (2004) theory of accomplishments, we propose that this diversity can be accounted for through properties of the relation between subevents in the accomplishment event structure.

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