Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!MC.LCS.MIT.EDU!SASW%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU From: SASW%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.ai Subject: Seminar - Classification of States and Events (MIT) Message-ID: <961974.861214.SASW@MX.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 00:28:51 EST Article-I.D.: MX.961974.861214.SASW Posted: Sun Dec 14 00:28:51 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Dec-86 04:03:47 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 Approved: ailist@sri-stripe.arpa Date: Fri 5 Dec 86 18:50:06-EST From: LPOLANYI at G.BBN.COM LINGUISTICS AND COGNITION SEMINAR SERIES SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - BBN LABS TOPIC: On the Classification of States and Events SPEAKER: Professor Henk Verkuyl University of Utrecht/ UMASS Amherst WHEN & WHERE: Thursday December 11, 1986 2nd Floor Large Conference Room BBN Labs 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, MA ABSTRACT: In this talk, I shall argue that Zeno Vendler in his original classification of aspectual categories into STATES, ACTIVITIES, ACCOMPLISHMENTS and ACHIEVEMENTS basically proposed a two parameter cross classification (PROCESS and DEFINITENESS/COUNT) but that he redundantly introduced a third parameter, INTERVAL. This INTERVAL parameter based on the length of a temporal unit has led, over the years, to many problems and misunderstandings. In the talk, I shall argue that a re-analysis of aspectual categories based on partial orderings provides a more satisfying treatment of natural language aspectual phenomena.