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On the Universality of Aspectual Classes: Inchoative States in Korean

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This paper seeks to provide evidence for cross-linguistic variation in aspectual classes based on so-called “inchoative states” in Korean. Unlike typical stative predicates, which are atelic, these aspectual predicates show variable telicity in that they can be modified by both for-adverbials (atelic) and in-adverbials (telic). To make sense of this apparently contradictory pattern of behaviour, it is argued that inchoative states in Korean entail the inception of a change of state, but with no inherent culmination in its inherent aspectual meaning. Under this proposal, they are compatible with for-adverbials since they have no inherent termination. They can, however, also be modified by in-adverbials because they describe the inception of a change of state, that is a time of transition between two states. Languages may differ with respect to the presence/absence of initial/final points in their aspectual representations.

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hal-03966210 , version 1 (31-01-2023)

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Jiyoung Choi. On the Universality of Aspectual Classes: Inchoative States in Korean. Emmanuelle Labeau; Qiaochao Zhang. Taming the TAME Systems, Brill, pp.123-135, 2015, 978-90-04-29202-4. ⟨hal-03966210⟩
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