What does telic mean?
Telic means Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end..
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/ˈtiːlɪk/ · adjective
Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end..
Several theorists of the previous chapters are supportive of this more telic view of human nature.
They were asked to rate the 36 activities for how purposeful they were.[…]Comparing the 10 most telic and the 10 most paratelic we found that the paratelic leisure activities were thought to involve less skill or challenge; they were also judged to satisfy social needs more, and to be more enjoyable.
I have certainly become more telic as I strive to achieve my goals set, but I am not really enjoying any of it.
1995, Michela Cennamo, Patterns of 'Active' Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives, John Charles Smith, Delia Bentley (editors), Historical Linguistics 1995: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Volume 1: General Issues and Non-Germanic Languages, page 39, In this framework, verbs denoting directed change of location, such as Italian andare 'go', instantiate Core Unaccusativity, in that they have a Theme subject and are the most telic, concrete, dynamic.
Similarly, verb forms that can govern either transitive or middle-case marking (cf. 2.1.3.1.2(c)) are more telic in their transitive manifestations.
Moreover, let us remember that some verbs can be telic and agentive at the same time: if one looks at the ASH category n°1 (change of location), i.e. the verbs considered the most telic, like FF arriver (arrive), partir (leave), venir (come), revenir (come back) (Sorace 2000:256), old Spanish huir (run away) and escapar (escape) (Legendre 2007), do they not bear an agentive component?
Use telic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Telic means Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include paratelic, atelic.
Several theorists of the previous chapters are supportive of this more telic view of human nature.
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