Atelic verb

Atelic verb is a term from linguistic semantics and includes verbs that designate states or relations, or dynamic processes, or activities that do not require a culmination or end point.

Mark

They are permanent and not completed and characterize the pure sequence or course of events (examples: blooming, living, dreaming). This also includes the iterative verbs that designate a repetitive occurrence (example: splash, strike). These appear in the main action categories. There are still many synonyms for atelic verbs, examples of which would be aterminative, continuative, italic, immutative. According to Zénó Vendler (1957/1967), these are further divided into activities (example: sleeping) and states (example: knowing).

opposite

The opposite of the atelic verbs are the telic verbs , which denote a closed situation (example: light up). Synonyms for this are terminative, mutative.

See also

• Action type (action type of a verb)

literature

• Beatrice Primus: Semantic Roles. Winter, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8253-5977-5 .
• Zeno Vendler : Verb and times. Philosophical Review 66, (1957) 143-160.

Web links

• Basic concepts: tense, aspect, type of action, constitution of time. In Wolfgang Hock, Manfred Krifka: Aspect and Constitution of Time. WS 2002/3, Institute for German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt University Berlin, 2002, p. 3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Dölling: verb semantics. Introduction 1: Verb meaning, aspect, event structure. University of Leipzig WiSe 2011/12
2. ↑ Duden - The grammar. Volume 7, Actions types of the verb, Rn 122 ff, p. 65, Mannheim 1973.
3. ^ Zeno Vendler : Verbs and Times. The Philosophical Review 66: 2, (1957) pp. 143-160.
4. ^ Zeno Vendler: Linguistics in Philosophy. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 1967, ISBN 0-8014-0436-3 .