| Certain middle-aged habits — golf, yoga, gardening — can help to create an atelic mind-set. |
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| The secret to avoiding Schopenhauerian ennui, Setiya argues, is either to do things that are complete and atelic or to find ways of engaging with your projects atelically. |
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| Achievements, accomplishments and semelfactives have telic situation aspect, while states and activities have atelic situation aspect. |
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| Finnish and Estonian, among others, have a grammatical aspect contrast of telicity between telic and atelic. |
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| In rare cases corresponding telic and atelic forms can be unrelated by meaning. |
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| It is well known that in languages with no overt aspectual morphology, telic predicates tend to be understood perfectively and atelic predicates imperfectively. |
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| Atelic sentences do not signal whether any such goal has been achieved. |
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