telicity

The property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense.

Noun

  1. The property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense.

Origin

Etymology tree English telic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English telicity From telic + -ity.

Forms

telicities

Related

telic atelic resultativity