Packet 1: Tossup 4

Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. A 1976 textbook on this property by Bernard Comrie relates it to the “internal constituency” of sentences. Carlota Smith proposed a two-point theory of this property that accounts for its “viewpoint” and “situation” types. Semelfactives have a “lexical” (10[1])form of this property sometimes called aktionsart (10[1])(“ack-tee-OWNS-art”). Howard Garey introduced a form of this property called “telicity.” A “delimitative” form of this property is expressed by verb reduplication in Mandarin, (-5[3])which also expresses this property with markers like le (-5[2])(“luh”) and zhe (10[1]-5[2])(“juh”). Words differ in this property depending on if they are perfective or imperfective. (10[2]-5[2])The habitual form of this property (-5[1])is expressed by the copular be in African-American (10[1])Vernacular (-5[1])English. (-5[2])For 10 points, tense, mood, (10[1])and what property (10[2])expressing a verb’s relation to task (10[1])completion and time make up the acronym TAM? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[6])

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