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Preface.1. Verb Classes and AspectualClassification:.Introduction.Aspectual Classes of Verbs.The four aspectualclasses.Testing for temporal constitution.Semelfactives.Can verbs, as opposedto VPs be aspectually categorized?.2. ProgressiveAchievements:.Introduction.Progressive achievements and the imperfectiveparadox.Achievements are not accomplishments.TemporalModification.Progressive achievements are different from progressiveaccomplishments.Deriving Progressive Achievements.Explanations.3. ResultativePredication:.Introduction.The syntax of secondary predication - a fastreview.The semantic interpretation of secondary predication.Secondarypredication as a summing operation.Semantic constraints on the secondarypredication operation.The semantic interpretation of depictivepredication.Object-oriented depictive predication.Subject oriented secondarypredication.The semantics of resultatives.The interpretation of simpleresultatives.The direct object restriction.Non-accomplishmentresultatives.Type shifting in non-accomplishment resultatives.The rest of thequestions.Dethematicised resultatives.Why do resultatives not occur withachievements or states?.Fake reflexives.Subject-orientedresultatives.Conclusions and the next set of questions.4. The Structure ofAccomplishments:.Incremental Themes and the notion of'extent'.Introduction.'Measuring out' and incrementality.Krifka's theory ofquantization.A Theory of Accomplishments.What Are IncrementalThemes?.Culminations.Incremental processes and incrementalrelations.Answering Some Questions about Accomplishments.Aspectual ambiguitywith wipe and read.The incremental role of the incremental theme.Kennedy andLevin: Telicity in terms of degree measurements.5. The Interpretation ofDerived Accomplishments:.Aspectual Shift in Resultatives.TransitiveAccomplishments.Intransitive resultatives.Why do resultatives have a 'result'meaning?.PPs as paths and PPs as results.Aspectual Shift in ProgressiveAchievements.The structure of the shift operation.The content of the activityand BECOME events.6. Quantization, Telicity and Change:.Quantization.Krifka'stheory of quantization.Telicity and Change.7. Telicity andAtomicity:.Telicity and atomicity.Events have their denotation in the countdomain.Homogeneity and S-cumulativity in the domain of individuals.Definingsets of atoms.Atomic structure in the domain of events.Atomicty and BECOMEevents.A note on degree predicates.For a time and in a time.8. EventStructure and Aspectual Classification:.What are semelfactives?.Why doesS-cumulativity characterise states and activities?.Why do we have the lexicalaspectual classes that we do?.The general picture: lexical aspect and thestructure of the domain of events.References.Index