Eckhard Bick - VISL

cI 199 process
(-CONTROL, imperfective
-> -PL), often derived from
- 468 -
crescimento ‘growth’,
decaimento ‘decay’,
decomposição ‘rotting’
cP 696 event (-CONTROL, perfective) impacto ‘impact’, nascimento
‘birth’, ovulação ‘ovulation’
cPS not yet -PL -events queda ‘fall’
cPP not yet +PL -events
explosão ‘explosion’, boléu
‘crash’, acidente ‘accident’
snak 63 talk 265 debate ‘debate, bate-papo ‘little
talk’, discussão ‘discussion’
strid 45 fight, quarrel rixa ‘row’, briga ‘fight’
TIME FIELD
There is a certain overlap between the time categories. Guerra, for instance, can be used as both a
period , a (historical) point in time and an occasion .
Nevertheless, a number of operational criteria makes prototype membership distinction
possible: words are “measuring words” and take numeral premodifiers (‘7 semanas’),
is a “time-institution” and can be “taken part in” (participar em/de or similar verbs), and is a
“time-place” and can be measured by words. , finally, covers time landmarks that
often are governed by the “delimiter prepositions” desde (‘from’, ‘since’) and até (‘until’), and
cannot be measured by words.
temp 178 point in time [can be part of occ, -V event] início ‘beginning’, instante
‘moment’
per 350 period in time
[part of cI/process, time-place]
fase ‘phase’, guerra ‘war’
dur 28 measure of time
[part of num+, time-unit]
hora ‘hour’, semana ‘week’
occ 514 occasion [part of cP/event, +HUM, concerto ‘concert’, guerra
human place-event]
‘war’, Natal ‘Christmas’
265 and have been allocated the -CONTROL feature, because they “happen” in the sense that they are
not fully controlled by the individual participant. thus means the situation of communal talking rather than a talk
one gives (which is a speech product )