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Conlangery #137: Telicity and Lexical Aspect

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In Japanese, unmarked nouns are default singular with T like verbs and default plural with a T like verbs. So here we have a case where the argument is pushing the verb into a particular or rather the verb is pushing,. um, a feature of the nouns into a particular interpretation because of the verb, T. Licity. In languages that don't really mark tense, but do have rich aspect systems, like you can have a situation where a tealic verbs in the perfective might have a default present tense interpretation. That's not going to be visible as visible in the language is certain things that we're talking about, right? But it's still something that you will want

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