Article published in:
Weak ReferentialityEdited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 219] 2014
► pp. 183–212
Telic definites and their prepositions
French and Serbian
This papers accounts for the emergence of telic readings of potentially locative sentences in French and Serbian (corresponding to the English
to go to the swimming pool
). The paper establishes that although deprived of overt marking of definiteness, the nominal of telic sentences of Serbian is interpreted as definite. It is shown that in both languages, telic definites are relational definites that take the human subject as the argument of the
telic qualia
associated to the head noun and that this option is restricted to under-specified spatial prepositions and verbs. A discussion of some very rare cases illustrating different telic constructions in both languages is proposed.
Published online: 03 December 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.219.08asi
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.219.08asi
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