Original scientific paper

Telicity in Croatian

Daliborka Sarić ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to test telicity in Croatian and determine the importance of this feature in describing the Croatian aspectual system. We examine the level of telicity encoding and the importance of incremental relations of verbs and their arguments in the constitution of this feature, as well as the overall relation between the prefix, the verb and the object. The presence of telicity and the configuration of this feature is shown on examples of typical incremental predications such as (pro)čitati knjigu or (po)jesti jabuku, compared to non-incremental predications such as (po)tražiti knjigu or (pri)čekati Ivana.

Keywords

telicity; direct object; incrementality; compositionality

Hrčak ID:

154180

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154180

Publication date:

13.3.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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