6. Formal and informal semantics of telicity

Paducheva, Elena V.; Pentus, Мati

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“…Then, the behavior of po-delim verbs, which are currently extending their functional use in Russian, provided a further argument in favor of the relaxed view of telicity advocated above: even if po-delim verbs do not encode lexical telicity (i.e., presence of an inherent culmination in the verb's denotation), they mark terminativity, i.e. they encode a semantics of the end, which I called terminativity, following Padučeva &Pentus (2008), andMehlig (2008).…”

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“…As Padučeva & Pentus (2008) and Mehlig (2008) note, all preixed pf verbs have the "semantics of the end lexically encoded in their meaning" (ibid.). Crucially, however, terminativity need not cover the whole interval; it is not synonymous with quantized.…”

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“…A more adequate notion is terminativity (Padučeva & Pentus 2008, Mehlig 2008, understood as a functional operation whereby a preverb added to an atelic impf root encodes a semantics which includes the end of the event. This generalization is supported by the overwhelming empirical fact that adding a preverb in Russian automatically makes an impf root pf.…”

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“…Following a number of authors, I also noted that the language is changing and that po-delim perfectives often behave as normal perfective telic partners of impf bare verbs, except for the attainment of the inherent culmination. I therefore proposed a more general deinition of telicity for Russian, which I call terminativity, similar to the concept developed by Padučeva & Pentus (2008), and Mehlig (2008). The advantage of this revised conception of telicity is that it provides a single function for all the preverbs, avoiding postulating a special case for po-delimitatives, and na-cumulatives.…”

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“…In particular the term must include podelim verbs, which behave more and more frequently as telic partner verbs in Russian. We will adopt a more "relaxed" notion of telicity similar to what Mehlig (2008) and Padučeva & Pentus (2008) refer to as terminativity.…”

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Preverbs in Russian: situation or viewpoint aspect?

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2015

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The present paper has two goals: to present the complex data of verbal preixation of Russian, and to assess the validity of the Situation Aspect-Viewpoint Aspect (Smith 1991) distinction for preverbs, in particular the thesis that all preverbs are telicity-markers (Borer 2005). First, arguments are introduced to show that all preixed verbs are automatically perfective (pf), all are subject to lexical restrictions. A preliminary conclusion is that all preverbs are telicity markers, contra Filip (2005Filip ( , 2008 for whom the preverb is pre-functional (lexical). This raises the question of the exact nature of telicity. In the literature (Dowty 1979, Krifka 1998, telicity is tested by means of in x time frame adverbials. A more relaxed version of telicity is proposed, following Borer (2005) & Lakorczyk (2010): it sufices for an event to be either non divisive or non homogeneous to be telic. The concept is akin to Paducheva & Pentus' (2008) terminativity: the function of the preverb is to seal off the event. This accounts for the behavior of po-delimitative verbs. The data show that some assumptions are not correct: po-delim verbs are currently extending their functional scope in Russian and often act as pf partners to impf verbs, they do not necessarily indicate short duration, and are subject to lexical restrictions (Dickey 2006). Finally, the role of the preverb with respect to viewpoint aspect is assessed. The conclusion is that it is Situation Aspect that is grammaticized in Russian by means of the preverbs, and not viewpoint aspect, which is derived by means of correlations.

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The Minimalist Program of Generative Grammar provides a model of the Sentence which represents the competence of the native speaker. The model combines lexical and morphosyntactic primitives via iterative merge operations. No comparable model exists for discourse; nor can one exist, since the primitive sentences of a discourse are unlimited in their internal structure and therefore in number. Yet speakers have a discourse competence. Moreover, a speaker who possesses Sentence competence automatically possesses Discourse competence as well. This fact suggests that the two modules of the language faculty engage in crucial interaction. More precisely (i) the anaphoric and rhetorical relations between sentences responsible for discourse coherence are encoded in sentence grammar, and (ii) these same relations constrain in turn the construal of the individual sentences of a discourse. Part I of the volume examines elements of sentence grammar, including tense, aspect, mood, modality, and determination; Part II targets modes of discourse: sentence sequences, dialogue, and different types of narrative. While focusing on a variety of subjects, languages, and methods of research, taken as a whole, the studies support the hypothesis that the grammaticality of both sentence and discourse depends on their constant interaction in both synchrony and diachrony.

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