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1 Aspectual concord and aspectual relativization: telicity in Serbo-Croatian Boban Arsenijević, Nantes, April 15 th 2011

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  • 1. 1 Aspectual concord and aspectual relativization: telicity in Serbo-Croatian Boban Arsenijevi, Nantes, April 15th 2011

2. 2 Part 1: Event-related quantification Next to the standard conservative readings of quantifiers (collective, distributive, cumulative), there is a type of interpretation that targets events rather than referents of the quantified nominal expressions (see Krifka 1990). (1) The referee showed seven yellow cards. Possibly 1 yellow card, but 7 events. 3. 3 Targets non-specific arguments Only non-specific quantified arguments can receive this type of interpretation. (2) a. 4000 ships passed through the lock last year. b. Certain 4000 ships passed through the lock last year. c. The 4000 ships passed through the lock last year. 4. 4 Some facts from S-C Targets direct objects. Goals possible targets, iff there is no direct object with the right semantic properties (non-specific, not undergoing predicate incorporation). Agentive subjects possible targets, iff there is no direct object and no goal with the right semantic properties. DO