The object the icicle is quantized but the event lengthen the icicle is not telic.
he proposes that the aspectual behavior of these verbs can be explained in terms of underlying scalar properties of the source verbs, particularly, the structure of "degree of change," d. He posits a degree "increase" function for both positive (such as long) and negative (such as short), having open-Now let us see how telicity is defined.