Abstract In the growing body of literature on nonculmination one question seems to have attracted less attention than it may deserve: why do some but not all accomplishment predicates allow for nonculminating interpretations? The goal of this paper is to review attested restrictions on nonculminating accomplishments and to explore one specific aspect of their meaning. Assuming, with the literature on predicate decomposition, that accomplishments minimally consist of a process and change of state components, I focus on the temporal structure of the former. The main empirical finding of the study is that a nonculminating reading is unavailable if contextually relevant parts of this component are arranged by the temporal precedence relation in a unique way.

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非终结成就的时间结构

摘要在越来越多的非高等文学文献中，一个问题似乎引起了人们的应有的关注：应为什么有些（但不是全部）成就谓词允许非高等解释？本文的目的是回顾对非最高成就的证明限制，并探讨其意义的一个特定方面。假设在谓词分解的文献中，成就最少包含一个过程和状态分量的变化，我将重点放在前者的时间结构上。该研究的主要经验发现是，如果该组件的上下文相关部分以时间优先顺序以独特的方式排列，则无法获得无终止的阅读。