2023. Dec. 14. 11:00

HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.), ground floor, aud

Diagnosing telicity

Organizer: Grammar and Pragmatics Research Group•Institute for General and Hungarian Linguistics

There exists a widely used, somewhat standard battery of tests for identifying telicity values for an eventuality description. This includes temporal adverbials and countability, among others. We take a look at these tests (as applicable to English, mostly) and discuss their reliability.

Contributors

Anikó Csirmaz

associate professor

University of Utah