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             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.