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  • From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
  • To: "'Peter Kirk'" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] VERBS
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:02:25 -0300

Were the examples below intended as counter-examples to my statements? (They
are not.)

Ken wrote:
> >It seems to me that Rolf's example "sing" always has the
> characteristic of
> >dynamicity. It is not a state.
> >Similarly, "sing" and "continue" always have durativity.
> They can never be
> >instantaneous.
> >And "create" has telicity. There is an inherent end to the activity.
> >It seems to me that these "lexical aspects" are uncancellable.

Peter responded:

> "All singing, all dancing" as a description of a product (e.g.
> http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=13356)?
>
> "'Is that true?" he asked. 'No', he continued"? (OK, it takes
> a finite
> time to utter even the short word "No", but very few of even the most
> punctiliar verbs are actually strictly instantaneous.)
>
> "She is always creating a fuss"?
>
> Such colloquial usages often bend these kinds of Aktionsart rules.





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