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Part VII (— sections 1.44—1.48) introduces the notion 'actualization aspect1. This third kind of aspect, apart from grammatical aspect and ontological aspect, pivots on the distinction be-tween 'boundedness1 and 'nonboundedness1, having to do with whether or not a (telic or atelic) situation is represented or interpreted as reaching a terminal point. | V. Abstract situation types ontological aspect 63 It will take Bill a long time to read books. atelic verb phrase If acceptable the sentence can only be interpreted as It will last a long time before Bill starts reading books . There is no reading in which the duration of the situation of reading books itself is measured. 1.39.8 We have already stressed that a telicity is not a characteristic of sentences since the nature of the subject does not play a part in making the distinction 20 but of verbs and verb phrases. In fact various constituents of the verb phrase can determine the a telic nature of the situation-template. For example walk is an atelic verb but walk a mile and walk for two hours are telic situation-templates. In the latter examples the telicizing constituents a mile for two hours measure the length of the conceptualized type of situation. Measuring the duration of a situation naturally means considering it from beginning to end. A verb phrase involving a measure phrase therefore naturally represents a kind of situation as having a point of completion i. e. as telic. At least this is the case as long as there is no reference to actualization i. e. as long as the VP is used in isolation as an infinitival form and not as the inflected VP of a tensed clause see below . In write a book the telos point of completion is implied rather than indicated by a phrase with a definite meaning but there is measuring in the sense that a book is typically conceived of as having an end and as constituting a unit of writing. In this case the idea of a telos is what Grice 1975 calls a conventional noncancellable pragmatic implicature of the infinitival VP write a book. From a pragmatic point of view there are only two kinds of verb phrase that can measure a type of situation. One is exemplified by write a book or build a wall in which the point of completion is conventionally implicated but remains indefinite i. e. writing a book and building a wall take up a specific .