Telicity (definition)

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Telicity is a term used in grammatical analysis. It refers to an element of the sentence that refers to an activity with a specific termination point.

References

Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.