strangled

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jul 2, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> In other words, "strangled" generally means "terminally choked".

yes.  and this constitutes another example of Y=X+something (the
something in this case being telicity), a pattern i've written about a
number of times.

arnold

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