Vendler’s Situation Types in Different Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Study

Abstract

Aiming at offering increasingly more evidence for Vendler’s renowned situation types and proving the similarity among world languages, the essay begins by delivering an overview of situation types put forward by Vendler in Verbs and Times. Next, cross-linguistic language facts, including English, Chinese, French, Korean, Icelandic, and Turkish, to name a few, are collected to provide proofs and analyses for the theory. To conclude, the selected evidences are likely to account for the similarity among those languages to some degree and the effectiveness of Vendler’s situations types.