For-adverbials quantify over subintervals, not subevents

Abstract

The traditional answer is: they must be atelic. But as we will see, this notion is imprecise. We will improve on it, without rejecting it. (Basically we’ll end up with temporally vs. spatially telic.).

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Lucas Champollion
New York University

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