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Telicity or telic aspect is a verb aspect, indicating a reached goal or action completed as intended. Languages that contrast telic and atelic actions are Pirahã and Finnic languages such as Finnish, Estonian; Czech also has a perfective suffix pre-, which is additionally telic. In linguistics, grammatical aspect is a property of a verb that defines the nature of temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state. ... The Pirahã are an indigenous hunter-gatherer tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil who mainly live on the banks of the Maici River. ... Finnic (Fennic, sometimes Baltic Finnic) may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i. ...


In Finnish, the telicity is marked on the object: the accusative is always telic, and the partitive is used to express atelicity. For example: The term accusative may be used in the following contexts: A form of morphosyntactic alignment, as found in nominative-accusative languages. ... The basic meaning of the Partitive case is partialness, without result or without specifying identity. In the Finnish language, its used to express unknown identities and irresultative actions. ...

  • Kirjoitin artikkelin. wrote-I article-accusative "I wrote/was writing the article (and completed as intended)"
  • Kirjoitin artikkelia. wrote-I article-partitive "I wrote/was writing the article (but not telling if finished)"

It should be noted that the partitive has other uses, e.g. with singular numerals: The basic meaning of the Partitive case is partialness, without result or without specifying identity. In the Finnish language, its used to express unknown identities and irresultative actions. ...

  • Kirjoitin kaksi artikkelia. wrote-I two-accusative (no ending) article-partitive "I wrote two articles (completed)"
  • Kirjoitin kahta artikkelia. wrote-I two-partitive article-partitive "I was writing two articles (but not telling if completed)"

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Management expects the acquisition of Telic to increase Axsys' consolidated revenues by approximately $5.5 to $5.8 million and operating profit by approximately $1.5 to $1.7 million for the balance of fiscal 2004.
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