George and William come back to talk about telicity and lexical aspect. Listen to us talk about endpoints in events and puzzle over why achievement and accomplishment are supposed to mean different things.

Links and Resources:

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• Maier, E. H. (2004). Above or Below: Modeling a Telicity Restriction on Karuk Directional Applicatives. Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 2, 317–330.
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• Santiago, P. J. (2003). Event Cancellation and Telicity in Tagalog. In Program for the 150th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (pp. 388–399).