2003 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 535-561
The aim of this paper is to semantically clarify the internal structures of various types of accomplishments. In doing so, the present theory assumes that an accomplishment event is made up of the corresponding activity event and the corresponding achievement event, and that the achievement event is constructed with an argument which plays the role of a measuring parameter for the event. Based on these assumptions, the paper will show that the aspectual distinction between accomplishments and activities can be represented in terms of their logical forms. Moreover, this paper will make it clear that the semantic incremental relationships which different types of accomplishments semantically imply are elucidated in a parallel manner.
