ASPECTUAL CLASSES OF PREDICATES IN MODERN ENGLISH
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія «Філологія» - Year 2016, Vol 20, Issue 2
Abstract
The article provides a brief survey of the aspectual classifications of predicates, starting from Z. Vendler’s classification of verbs into achievements, accomplishments, activities, and states. Semelfactives, as the fifth aspectual class, are discussed in details by C. Smith. The paper explores the criteria for the aspectual classifications of verbs and verbal phrases. Attention is paid to the study of telicity as the main parameter which determines the aspectual value of a predicate. Telicity in English is a property of verbal phrases. Therefore, it is not applicable to the classifications of verbs. The latter differ as to the objects they are valent to. The verbs followed by incremental objects denote an event of change (telic events). The verbs which take non-incremental objects denote atelic processes.
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L. T. Soroka, M. V. Pukaliak
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