"telic" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From the Ancient Greek τελῐκός (telikós, “final”), from τέλος (télos, “end”).",
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      "form": "more telic",
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      "word": "telicity"
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          "ref": "1993, Brent D. Slife, Time and Psychological Explanation, page 226",
          "text": "Several theorists of the previous chapters are supportive of this more telic view of human nature.",
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          "ref": "2001, Michael Argyle, The Psychology of Happiness, 2nd edition, page 129",
          "text": "They were asked to rate the 36 activities for how purposeful they were.[…]Comparing the 10 most telic and the 10 most paratelic we found that the paratelic leisure activities were thought to involve less skill or challenge; they were also judged to satisfy social needs more, and to be more enjoyable.",
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          "ref": "2002, John Kerr, Counselling Athletes: Applying Reversal Theory, page 62",
          "text": "I have certainly become more telic as I strive to achieve my goals set, but I am not really enjoying any of it.",
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          "text": "1995, Michela Cennamo, Patterns of 'Active' Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives, John Charles Smith, Delia Bentley (editors), Historical Linguistics 1995: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Volume 1: General Issues and Non-Germanic Languages, page 39,\nIn this framework, verbs denoting directed change of location, such as Italian andare 'go', instantiate Core Unaccusativity, in that they have a Theme subject and are the most telic, concrete, dynamic."
        },
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          "ref": "2000, Niko Besnier, Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific, published 2002, page 495",
          "text": "Similarly, verb forms that can govern either transitive or middle-case marking (cf. 2.1.3.1.2(c)) are more telic in their transitive manifestations.",
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          "ref": "2015, Pierre-Don Giancarli, “Auxiliary selection with intransitive and reflexive verbs: the limits of gradience and scalarity, followed by a proposal”, in Rolf Kailuweit, Malte Rosemeyer, editors, Auxiliary Selection Revisited: Gradience and Gradualness, page 82",
          "text": "Moreover, let us remember that some verbs can be telic and agentive at the same time: if one looks at the ASH category n°1 (change of location), i.e. the verbs considered the most telic, like FF arriver (arrive), partir (leave), venir (come), revenir (come back) (Sorace 2000:256), old Spanish huir (run away) and escapar (escape) (Legendre 2007), do they not bear an agentive component?",
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          "text": "Moreover, let us remember that some verbs can be telic and agentive at the same time: if one looks at the ASH category n°1 (change of location), i.e. the verbs considered the most telic, like FF arriver (arrive), partir (leave), venir (come), revenir (come back) (Sorace 2000:256), old Spanish huir (run away) and escapar (escape) (Legendre 2007), do they not bear an agentive component?",
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