Telicity effects of prefixes on degree achievements in Czech

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://lingbuzz.com/j/rgg/2020/2020.03/" target="_blank" >https://lingbuzz.com/j/rgg/2020/2020.03/</a>

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Telicity effects of prefixes on degree achievements in Czech

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The telicity behavior of degree achievements has been a puzzling problem for many linguists. The most successful and currently standard theory (Kennedy and Levin 2008) treats them as degree expressions based on different scales, which in turn influence the resulting telic or atelic interpretation. While it may account for English, this theory does not hold up cross-linguistically. We challenge the scalar theory with new Slavic data and show that verbal prefixes influence the telicity interpretation of degree achievements more than their underlying scales do. We hypothesize that the atelic/telic interpretation of the prefixed degree achievements is related to the unbounded/bounded algebraic denotation of the prefixes. In this, we follow Zwarts (2005) and his theory of the prepositional aspect. In our proposal, we formalize this contribution as an addition of two type-shifters, morphosyntactically realized as prefixes, which, as a result, have a telicizing or atelicizing effect on the given degree achievement.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Telicity effects of prefixes on degree achievements in Czech

Popis výsledku anglicky

The telicity behavior of degree achievements has been a puzzling problem for many linguists. The most successful and currently standard theory (Kennedy and Levin 2008) treats them as degree expressions based on different scales, which in turn influence the resulting telic or atelic interpretation. While it may account for English, this theory does not hold up cross-linguistically. We challenge the scalar theory with new Slavic data and show that verbal prefixes influence the telicity interpretation of degree achievements more than their underlying scales do. We hypothesize that the atelic/telic interpretation of the prefixed degree achievements is related to the unbounded/bounded algebraic denotation of the prefixes. In this, we follow Zwarts (2005) and his theory of the prepositional aspect. In our proposal, we formalize this contribution as an addition of two type-shifters, morphosyntactically realized as prefixes, which, as a result, have a telicizing or atelicizing effect on the given degree achievement.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Rivista di Grammatica Generativa

ISSN

2531-5935

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

42

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

IT - Italská republika

Počet stran výsledku

29

Strana od-do

1-29

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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