Last night I realized that in my
previous post about aspectual properties of verbs, I wrote about "stative verbs" and "dynamic verbs". I suppose it is useful to identify verbs that allow stative and/or dynamic interpretations, but I should also have pointed out that in the final analysis, it is not the verb
per se that is stative or dynamic. Rather, it is a property of an entire VP. For example,
I'm going to have a shower has the dynamic VP
have a shower where
I have a shower in my basement has the stative VP
have a shower in my basement.
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