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Provide a Klein's analysis for the second clause of the sentence below (marked bold).
When I came into the room, John was sleeping
Past tense => TT is before TU
Imperfective aspect => TT is within TSit
In Vendler's classification, what is the actional class of the following predicate? Why?
see the issue
It is a state:
I see the issue -- episodic reading
*I am seeing the issue
Using Levin&Rappaport-Hovav's notation,
provide the predicate decomposition of the verb see
x <see> y
Imperfective, perfective, perfect -- what type of aspect these categories represent?
Name a word NOT in English
Russian: слово (slovo)
Provide a Klein's analysis for the sentence below.
I am going to study in Berkeley.
Present Tense => TT = TU
Prospective Aspect => TT is before TSit
In Vendler's classification, what is the actional class of the following predicate? Why?
reach the summit
It is an achievement:
#I reach the summit -- no episodic reading
*I am reaching the summit -- bad in the progressive
*I reached the summit for two minutes -- telic
Using Levin&Rappaport-Hovav's notation,
provide the predicate decomposition of the verb bark
x ACT <bark>
What are Smith's five actional classes?
Hint: 4 Vendler's classes + one more
States, activities, accomplishments, achievements, semelfactives
Name at least one of the characters that were shown in breaks/as a joke in the class slides of this course
Provide a Klein's analysis for the sentence below (including the meaning of adverbial).
John will work tomorrow.
Future tense => TT is after TU
Simple form => perfective => TSit is inside TT
Tomorrow: TT is one day later than TU
In Vendler's classification, what is the actional class of the following predicate? Why? Is this just a normal accomplishment or there is something else?
read a book
It is an accomplishment
John read a book in 4 hours => telic
John is reading a book => accomplishment
It also combines with for-adverbials => atelic
Using Levin&Rappaport-Hovav's notation,
provide the predicate decomposition of the verb close (as in John closed the door)
[x ACT] CAUSE [BECOME y <close(d)>]
Name all the actional meaning labels from Tatevosov's classification
S, P, MP, ES, EP, (EMP, Q)
Name at least one formal semantic professor from our department
Alexander Williams, Valentine Hacquard, Aron Hirsh, Omar Agha, (Jeff Lids -- as an acquisitionist)
Provide a Klein's analysis for the sentence below (ignore already). What does the when-clause localize in the main clause?
When I came back, John had already left the house.
Past tense => TT is before TU
Perfect aspect => TT is after TSit
When I came back localizes TT, the moment I came back
In Tatevosov's classification, what is the class of the verb give?
(1a) John is giving/*gives him an apple.
(1b) John immediately gave him an apple.
(1c) *John gave him an apple for four minutes.
It is a strong telic predicate, or <ES, P>
(1a) => <..., P>
(1b) + (1c) => <ES, P>
Using Levin&Rappaport-Hovav's notation,
provide the predicate decomposition of the predicate wipe off
(as in Kelly wiped the crumbs off the table)
[x ACT <wipe>] CAUSE [BECOME <off (the location)> y]
Levin&Rappaport Hovav claim that the meaning of a predicate consists of two parts. How these parts are called?
Lexical constant (idiosyncratic part)
Event template (structural part)
Which of these languages does not exist?
Hill Mari, Eastern Russian, Meadow Mari, Tundra Nenets, Poshkart Chuvash, Kazym Khanty
Meadow Russian
Provide an analysis for the sentence below, using Klein's theory + Perfect Aspect Trace.
John has been dancing for two hours.
Present Tense => TT = TSit
Perfect Time span: the 2-hour interval before TU
In Tatevosov's classification, what is the actional type of the verb type?
(1a) He is typing.
(1b) He typed (once).
(1c) He typed for a while but then stopped.
(1d) He came in and immediately typed, in fact he's still typing.
<EMP MP Q, MP> (or <EP MP ES, MP>)
(1b) => <...Q/ES, ...>
(1a) => <...Q/ES, MP>
(1c) => <... MP Q/ES, MP>
(1d) => <EMP/EP MP Q/ES, MP>
Using Levin&Rappaport-Hovav's notation,
provide the predicate decomposition of the predicate feed with X,
as in John fed his son with vegetables
An actional class is provided for a pair/group of verbs, not for a single verb.
What is usually covered by forms of the same verb in languages in English is covered by lexically different verbs in Russian.
Name the first name of the person who will answer this question last
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