Achievements and Paths: Degree Achievements from the Slavic Perspective

DOČEKAL, Mojmír and Lucia VLÁŠKOVÁ. Achievements and Paths: Degree Achievements from the Slavic Perspective. In 14th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 14). 2021.

Basic information

• Original name: Achievements and Paths: Degree Achievements from the Slavic Perspective
• Authors: DOČEKAL, Mojmír and Lucia VLÁŠKOVÁ.
• Edition: 14th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 14), 2021.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: degree semantics; degree achievements; Czech
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The telicity behavior of degree achievements has been a puzzling problem for many linguists. The most successful and currently standard theory (Kennedy and Levin 2008) treats them as degree expressions based on different types of scales, which in turn influence the resulting telic or atelic interpretation. While it may account for English, this theory does not hold up cross-linguistically. We challenge the scalar theory with new Slavic data and show that verbal prefixes influence the (a)telic interpretation of degree achievements more than their underlying scales do.

Links

• MUNI/A/1288/2020, interní kód MU: Name: Komparativní a typologický lingvistický výzkum kategorie stupně a čísla - studenti ÚJaB (Acronym: KoTyLin)

Investor: Masaryk University