Re: Anti-telic?

If I may ask, would it be a form of "telic" or "gnomic" apply to events such
as monsoons {which repeat on an annual basis} ?

And would it be the same whether a monsoon was presently taking place, vs if
the monsoon ended a month ago?

Just wondering, and thought to enter conversations once more.

have nice days.


>>1. Gnomic AFAIU would require it to be universally true, i.e. have no
>>finite start point before which it may not have been true (e.g 2+2=4)
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>True.
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>>2. Gnomic seems exclusively a state-of-the-world or
>>truths-about-the-world sort of thing, whereas antitelic would be a
>>type of (forever-continuing) action, of which existence or state is a
>>subset
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>Yes, gnomic is to do with _states_ whereas, I am discovering, telic &
>atelic are to do with processes.
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>>3. Antitelic
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>I do not understand what point 3 is.
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>>4. They're different grammatical categories
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>Semantic as well, surely. Any explicit grammaticalization of these
>categories seem to be be related to syntax.

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