The interaction of English particles, Bulgarian prefixes, and telicity
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/190Dato
2004-06-15Type
Master thesisMastergradsoppgave
Forfatter
Vitkova Vitkova, PolyaSammendrag
The present work is a comparative analysis of English particles, Bulgarian
prefixes, and the telicity effects they induce. Three classes of verbs are
investigated: creation-consumption verbs, degree
achievements/accomplishments, and the special "eat-drink" class.
The results show that in Bulgarian, prefixes induce telicity regardless of
the nature of the verbal object, whereas in English telicity is built
compositionally. More specifically, English predicates telicity
depends on the type of the verb, the presence/absence of a particle, as well
as the nature of the object and its quantization properties. On the other
hand, the "eat/drink" class turns out to have similar
characteristics both in English and Bulgarian in that those verbs require
quantization of the object in both languages. Thus, I show crucial
differences as well as similarities in the telicity effects induced by
English particles and Bulgarian prefixes.
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Universitetet i TromsøUniversity of Tromsø
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