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Conlangery #137: Telicity and Lexical Aspect

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Derivational Affixes and Causatives

In general, the causing part of a causative is T-licity. To go to school, that's different. And once again, different languages are going to cope with this differently. So I would be suggesting there like as you're making your derivational affixes, think about that in terms of what does this mean and then does that meaning require it to be attached to something that’s T-licy? That should also be true for resultatives. You can get same sort of complexities with auxiliary verbs. For example, in the audio language, the verb for to fall, but is used in an auxiliary construction to indicate a sudden event. It also necessarily makes

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