Telic senses of deadjectival verbs

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-66

  Kearns, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accomplishments; Achievements; Deadjectival verbs; Diagnostics for telicity; Open and closed scale adjectives; Resultatives; Telicity alternations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750618272     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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