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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dear Sergey – The first such synthesis was attempted by Dowty (1979). But Dowty’s approach proved flawed in several ways. Thus (from memory), he assumed that all state change descriptions are telic,
ignoring the problem of ‘degree achievements’ such as _<i>grow</i>_ and _<i>ascend</i>_ or _<i>rise</i>_, and that all accomplishments are causative, etc. These problems are discussed and addressed in Van Valin & LaPolla (1997). Cf. also Bohnemeyer (2004)
for further discussion and an independent approach. – Best – Juergen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Bohnemeyer, J. (2004). Split intransitivity, linking, and lexical representation: the case of Yukatek Maya.
<i>Linguistics</i> 42(1): 67-107.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dowty, D. (1979). <i>Word meaning and Montague Grammar</i>. Dordrecht: Reidel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">& R. J. LaPolla. (1997). <i>Syntax: Structure, meaning and function</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Sergey Loesov via Lingtyp <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, October 21, 2024 at 11:56<br>
<b>To: </b>LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] actionality and transitivity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am currently working on the verb morphosyntax (or “morphological semantics”) of Modern Western Aramaic, a relic language still spoken in the Qalamoun mountains of Syria. My aim
is to develop a comprehensive classification that integrates Vendlerian actional classes with features such as syntactic transitivity and agentivity. This approach is driven by the evidence I have encountered so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Could you point me to any studies or attempts that classify verbs by combining these features?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sergey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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