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into parts or basic principles so as to determine the nature of the whole." In
this telic sense, analyze takes on an ACM interpretation in which Jeri's
activity of methodical examination causes a bounded state of affairs — a
"determin[ation of] the nature of the whole" — to be brought about.
The suggestion that analyze does, in fact, have both of these senses is
supported when those of the Dowty tests which typically separate activity
verbs from accomplishment verbs are applied to analyze (1979: 60; number
ing altered from original).
(41) ACT/ACM Dowty Tests Activities Accomplishments- 0 in an hour, take an hour to 0 bad OK
- 0 for an hour entails 0 at all times in the hour: yes no
- χ is 0ing entails x has Φed: yes no
- complement of finish: bad OK
When these tests are applied to analyze, the verb-classification results vary
according to which of the two senses described above (the atelic, as in Jeri
analyzed the data all afternoon, or the telic, as in Jeri analyzed the data in
less than an hour) are assumed.
(42) Dowty tests applied to analyze:
Test 1: Jeri analyzed the data in an hour /Jeri took an hour to
analyze the data.
OK if the nature of the data was determined at the end of that
hour: = ACM
BAD if no such determination was reached: = ACT
Test 2: Jeri analyzed the data for an hour entails she analyzed the
data at all times in the hour.
YES if only methodical examination was occurring throughout
that hour: = ACT
NO if the nature of the data was determined at any point dur
ing that hour: = ACM
Test 3: Jeri is analyzing the data entails she has analyzed the data.
YES if in both the test construction and the entailment,
analyze is interpreted as referring only to methodical exami
nation: = ACT
NO if in the entailment, analyze is interpreted as including a
determination of the nature of the whole: = ACM