Nik Taylor wrote:
> "J. Barefoot" wrote:
> > >What's 'telic'?
> >
> > Carried out completely.
>=20
> Like "beat to death" as the telic of "beat"? Old Watakassi' has
> something like that, indicated by the suffix -(h)e', but nowadays, =
it's
> become a fossilized part of stems.
Freaky coincidence. Just after typing "what's telic?" and sending
the mail, I sat down and read my semantics book (homework).=20
The first thing I read was a part on aspect and the difference
between durative/punctual and telic/atelic. So now I know.=20
Spooky. :)
Oh. My definition (from 'Semantics' by John Saeed) is:
"...processes which are seen as having a natural completion".
Daniel Andreasson