Closure and Telicity across Categories

Yoad Winter

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge Categorization, perception, and language

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One of the fascinating aspects of telicity is its relations with non-verbal categories. Whether a given predicate is telic or atelic does not only depend on the verb, but can also be affected by the count/mass quantification in the NP object, by the lexical semantics of related adjectives, and by the prepositions that the predicate may con-

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