THE IMPERFECTIVE PARADOX and trajectory-of-motion events

Authors:
Michael White
Affiliations:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Venue:
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1993

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Abstract

In the first part of the paper, I present a new treatment of THE IMPERFECTIVE PARADOX (Dowty 1979) for the restricted case of trajectory-of-motion events. This treatment extends and refines those of Moens and Steedman (1988) and Jackendoff (1991). In the second part, I describe an implemented algorithm based on this treatment which determines whether a specified sequence of such events is or is not possible under certain situationally supplied constraints and restrictive assumptions.