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Telicity — In linguistics, telicity is the property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense. A verb or verb phrase with this property is said to be telic , while a verb or verb phrase that presents an action … Wikipedia
Grammatical aspect — In linguistics, the grammatical aspect of a verb defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state. For example, in English the difference between I swim and I am swimming is a difference of aspect.Aspect, as discussed… … Wikipedia
Finnish language noun cases — Finnish nouns (including pronouns and numerals) as well as any modifying adjectives, superlatives or comparatives, can be declined by a large number of grammatical cases, which are detailed here. See also Finnish language grammar. TOC Finnish… … Wikipedia
Manfred Krifka — is director of the Center for General Linguistics (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ZAS) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and editor of the academic journal Theoretical Linguistics.[1] Contents 1 See also 2 Notes and references … Wikipedia
Estonian language — Infobox Language name=Estonian nativename=eesti keel familycolor=Uralic states=Estonia region=Northern Europe speakers=1.1 million fam2=Finno Ugric fam3=Finno Volgaic fam4=Finno Lappic fam5=Baltic Finnic nation=EST|Estonia EUR|European Union… … Wikipedia
Telic — Telic, i.e. a purposeful or defined action may refer to:*Grammatically, indicating telicity *A central argument of Teleology says that the world has clearly been constructed in a purposeful telic rather than a chaotic manner, and must therefore… … Wikipedia
Finnish language — language name=Finnish nativename=suomi pronunciation=/ˈsuo.mi/ states=FIN EST Flag|Ingria Flag|Karelia NOR SWE Flag|Torne Valley region=Northern Europe speakers=about 6 million script=Latin alphabet (Finnish variant) familycolor=Uralic fam2=Finno … Wikipedia
Chipewyan — The Chipewyan ( Denésoliné or Dënesųłiné ) are a Dene Aboriginal people in Canada, whose ancestors were the Taltheilei. There are approximately 11,000 Chipewyan living in the Canadian Arctic regions around Hudson Bay, including Manitoba and the… … Wikipedia
Aktionsart — The aktionsart (pronounced|ʔakˈʦi̯oːnsˌʔaɐ̯t, plural aktionsarten IPA| [ʔakˈʦi̯oːnsˌʔaɐ̯tn̩] ) or lexical aspect of a verb is a part of the way in which that verb is structured in relation to time. Any event, state, process, or action a verb… … Wikipedia
Predicate (grammar) — In traditional grammar, a predicate is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the subject, which the predicate modifies). In current linguistic semantics, a predicate is an expression that can be true of something. Thus, the… … Wikipedia
