Sentence examples for achievement verbs from inspiring English sources

Achievement verbs are usually considered to have a theme subject, and accomplishments have a causer or agent subject.6 Note that neither of those constructions has to be marked for aspect by any overt morphological means.

This example displays the same alternation between an unaccusative and a causative variant of the verb as the verb in example 7. The voiced variant is unaccusative, characterized by a theme subject; unaccusative verbs are typical telic (achievement) verbs compatible with the perfective aspect.

This structure accounts, e.g. for the LAC achievement verb 死 sǐ 'die' in example 4a which refers to E2 and to the accomplishment verb 築 zhú in 4b which can refer to E1 and E2 depending on the grammatical construction it appears in.

As contrasted with 'lying,'deceiveve' is an achievement or success verb (Ryle 1949, 130).

This is because 'lie' is not an achievement or success verb, and an act of lying is not a perlocutionary act.

Then, just as medal was verbed to describe the act of winning a medal, podium could follow suit as a verb of achievement.

Delight in illusion honors the verbs of accomplishment, not the objects of achievement.

Eventuality is a cover term for Vendler's (1957) four types of verbs: states, activities, achievements and accomplishments.

The term perfective verb is frequently employed to refer to telic verbs (accomplishments and achievements) which display the same biphasic temporal structure.

In Dilemmas, Ryle discusses in more detail the logical-grammatical differences between verbs of success or achievement and "hunt" or "try" verbs which do not carry this particular normative dimension.

So when we speak of Race To The Top, we really mean that "Race" should be read as a noun not a verb, since the racial achievement gap has been declared the civil rights issue of this century.