An aspectual approach to verbs of the type eljátszogat, elénekelget
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2021.2.158Keywords:
delimitatives, terminativity, telicity, temporal boundedness, verbs of scalar changeAbstract
This paper discusses the contradictory nature of the aspectual features of the delimitative verbal prefix el- ‘away’ and the temporal boundedness of the event expressed by the base verb together with its atelic nature. As a detailed analysis of the characteristics associated with the atelic – telic opposition confirmed that the two features are unsuitable for an appropriate description, the author used the concept of terminativity of Slavic aspect studies in an attempt to identify a set of verbs in aspectual terms. In line with similar approaches, the author divided terminativity, which means the general, external and internal temporal delimitation of events, into three groups: absolute telic, relative telic and simple terminative. The latter category is comprised of events that are only bounded in time. The three terminative groups provide a powerful tool to categorise not only delimitatives but also verbs of scalar change, the largest semantic group that reveals the relative nature of telicity: their non-prefixed versions belong to the relative subgroup, whereas those with a prefix belong to the absolute telic subgroup. This categorisation may be affected by the pragmatic circumstances.
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