Event Structure , Punctuality , and ‘ When ’ ( Running head : as main title )

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  • Sheila Glasbey
  • Peter Coxhead
  • Robin Cooper
  • Ivan Derzhanski
  • Jim McGilvray
  • Martin Mellor
  • Carlota Smith
  • Antonella Sorace
  • Mark Steedman
چکیده

In this paper, I discuss observations on ‘when’ given by Sandström (1993) for constructions of the form ‘when A B’, where A and B both describe events (as opposed to states). Sandström proposes that for events described in the simple past, the temporal interpretation of such sequences varies according to whether A describes a culminated process (CP) (accomplishment) or a culmination (CULM) (roughly, an achievement). She offers an account of this behaviour, based on the claim that culminations denote changes of state while culminated processes do not. I argue that this claim is unmotivated, and in addition, draw attention to a range of counter-examples to her generalisation. I present an analysis which is not based on the CP/CULM distinction but relies instead on the distinction originally proposed in (Dowty 1979) between the event structures CAUSE-BECOME and BECOME. I show that this

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تاریخ انتشار 2003