The Origins of Telicity
The Origins of Telicity
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Telicity 的起源
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1998
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M. Krifka
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从模型论语义学的早期开始，就已经根据其意义的代数性质描述了目的谓词和收集谓词之间的区别。这种观点受到亚里士多德关于需要或不需要时间完成的动作类型的讨论的启发，Vendler（1957）将其纳入并转变为对动作表示谓词的语言学讨论。似乎最有助于表达亚里士多德的区别的代数概念似乎是部分的部分概念，它适用于这些谓词成立的时间：集类谓词，像推车一样，具有子区间性质，也就是说，只要它们在一个时间区间为真，那么它们在该区间的任何部分都为真;这并不适用于动词谓语，如eat an apple，cf。2.班尼特和帕蒂（1972），泰勒（1977）和道蒂（1979）。Bach（1986）将这些见解整合到基于事件的语义学中。
The distinction between telic and atelic predicates has been described in terms of the algebraic properties of their meaning since the early days of model-theoretic semantics. This perspective was inspired by Aristotle’s discussion of types of actions that do or do not take time to be completed which was taken up and turned into a linguistic discussion of action-denoting predicates by Vendler (1957). The algebraic notion that seemed to be most conducive to express the Aristotelian distinction appeared to be the mereological notion of a part, applied to the time at which these predicates hold: atelic predicates, like push a cart, have the subinterval property, that is, whenever they are true at a time interval, then they are true at any part of that interval; this does not hold for telic predicates, like eat an apple, cf. Bennett & Partee (1972), Taylor (1977), and Dowty (1979)2. Bach (1986) integrated these insights into a semantics based on events.