
Conlangery #137: Telicity and Lexical Aspect
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Is There a Conflict Between Achievements and Achievements?
The thing to think about is a clash between end states. And where you get clashes, interesting things can happen in different subtle interpretations are possible. I would expect that this to be something that happens if we go into the breakdown of the actual aspect happening to accomplishments and not achievements in most cases. That seems like, okay, I don't think it works exactly the same thing. There's similar weirdness in Spanish to that, but I think it might have, it's maybe a more specific class of verbs than that.
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