Telicity Variability and the Event Structure.

완결성 교체현상과 사건구조

This paper deals with the telicity variability on the point of Pustejovsky's (2000) event structures. Accomplishments and achievements have been known to show the telicity. According to Hay, Kennedy, and Levin (1999), however, open-range predicate in degree achievements, which do not show telicity, can show telicity in certain context. In order to explain this kind of telicity variability systematically, I will discuss Pustejovsky's (1995) Generative Lexicon Theory and the co-composition generative mechanism in section 2. In section 3, I will discuss Hay, Kennedy, and Levin's (1999) telicity variability and Lee Chungmin's (2000) modified extended lexical structure. In section 4, I will introduce Pustejovsky's (2000) event structures and modify them a little. And I will argue that the modified event structures can explain the telicity variability with the co-composition generative mechanism efficiently.