A note on how and why ‘state + aorist = achievement’

• Antonio Fábregas ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitet i Tromsø. Noruega
• Localización: Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ISSN 0718-5758, ISSN-e 0717-1285, Nº. 33, 2016, págs. 57-68
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In syntactic and semantic studies, there is a debate about the proper definition of ‘achievement’. While some authors consider them pure punctual boundaries without any extension, others treat them as short accomplishments, and propose that they have a process component that happens to be instantaneous. The goal of this article is to discuss an empirical pattern whereby some stative verbs become achievements in the aorist;

    it is argued that this pattern of data supports the view of achievements as pure boundaries