As illustrated in chapter (1), in present-day Hungarian basically all accomplishment and achievement predicates denoting a delimited change of state or change of location have a verbal particle. In Standard Hungarian, there is still a handful of verbs left which are ambiguous with respect to situation aspect; they can be interpreted both as atelic process predicates and as telic accomplishment or achievement predicates. In spoken Hungarian, however, these verbs have also developed a clearly telic variant associated with a verbal particle.
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Kiss, K.E. (2008). From the Grammaticalization of Viewpoint Aspect to the Grammaticalization of Situation Aspect. In: Kiss, K.E. (eds) Event Structure And The Left Periphery. Studies In Natural Language And Linguistic Theory, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4755-8_7
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