Investigating Achievement and Accomplishment Aspects in Kalhori: A Phase Approach

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran

2 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Linguistic, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran.

Abstract

The present study has investigated the difference between achievement and accomplishment aspects in Kalhori based on phase approach of Croft (2012). Three types of reversible directed achievement, irreversible directed achievement and cyclic achievement were found in Kalhori language. Accomplishment aspects are divided into two types of incremental and non-incremental aspects in this language. The results, also, showed that cyclic achievement in Kalhori does not end with a result state. Direct achievements are different from cyclic achievement in this feature. Likewise, the completion phase in non-incremental accomplishment aspect represents the characteristics of continuity, non-uniformity and non-incremental trend. The difference in the completion phase creates a difference between incremental accomplishment and non-incremental accomplishment. Furthermore, the presence of the profiled phase in the accomplishments, which usually does not exist in state, activity, achievement aspects, guarantees the existence of the end point of the event. In the phase approach, the accomplishments are bounded due to having an end point or beginning and completion phases.

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Linguistic Studies: Theory and Practice

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 04 April 2025

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  • Receive Date: 06 September 2024
  • Revise Date: 04 April 2025
  • Accept Date: 04 April 2025

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