영어 동사의 상(aspect) 분류

This paper concerns the aspectual classification of English verbs. In the traditional aspectual classification, three features were usually used: [static], [durative], and [telic]. Although these features do not seem to pose any problem with the four-way distinction in Vendler (1967) and Dowty (1979), they cannot account properly for the characteristics of semelfactives and inchoatives. In particular, using [telic] feature for classifying those verbs often leads to conflicts. We propose using [phase shift] instead of [telic] for the classification. Provided that semelfactives are [-phase shift] and inchoatives are [+phase shift], we can account for the aspectual properties of those verbs without any conceptual or empirical difficulties.