@inproceedings{Engelberg1999,
  author    = {Engelberg, Stefan},
  title     = {The magic of the moment - what it means to be a punctual verb},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 12-15, 1999. Berkeley : Berkeley Linguistics Society},
  editor    = {Ruppenhofer, Josef and Liaw, Lily and Chang, Steve S.},
  pages     = {109 -- 121},
  year      = {1999},
  abstract  = {Lexical-semantic theories often suffer from the imprecision of the concepts they employ in their representations. This leads to a considerable decrease in empirical strength by inviting circular argumentation. A demonstration of how to go about overcoming such shortcomings will be carried out, using the lexical semantic concept of "punctuality" as an example. Firstly, I will argue that the distinction between punctuality and durativity plays a crucial role for the explanation of a wide range of syntactic and semantic phenomena. Secondly, I will discuss methodological issues involved in arriving at a more precise definition of punctuality and, finally, the notion of "punctuality" will be given an interpretation on the basis of extensive consultation of research on cognitive time concepts.},
  subject      = {Deutsch},
  language  = {en}
}