Poster Presentation for "Telicity, teleological modality, and (non-)culmination"

We propose an enriched modal mereology for telic predicates, in which the inherent endpoint (or télos) associated with a telic predicate P structures the set of events in the denotation of P in the same way as a goal structures a set of alternatives for teleological modal claims. This approach to telicity obviates the imperfective paradox, and supports a unified extensional account of (non-)culmination effects from perfective as well as imperfective accomplishments cross-linguistically.