This week, Laurestine Bradford (McGill) will be presenting a MULL-themed talk “What are the eventuality classes of Tlingit?”. The meeting will take place on Monday, September 16 at 3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Laurestine’s abstract is below:
In terms of eventuality class (or lexical aspect, or aktionsart), Tlingit verbs broadly fall into four groups: achievement, activity, state, and position/motion. In this talk, I will zoom in on the non-motion events (achievements and activities). Using new evidence about culmination entailments (or lacks thereof) in pluractional and perfective forms, I will present my ongoing attempts to describe the fundamental difference between these two eventuality classes. If time permits, I may also present tantalizing preliminary data from adverbial modification that suggests that not all achievements are created equal, nor all activities, with regard to their internal temporal structure.
Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvfu6orzIrHtEHSdthyymSx50ZHxlHqvwu.