Telicity
Whether a verb presents an action/event as having an endpoint / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses of telic, see Telic.
In linguistics, telicity (/tiːˈlɪsɪti/; from Greek τέλος 'end, goal') is the property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as having a specific endpoint. A verb or verb phrase with this property is said to be telic; if the situation it describes is not heading for any particular endpoint, it is said to be atelic.