... possible para- phrase, and the type that the argument has outside *We are indebted to Anne Abeilld, Nicolas Asher, Michel Aurnague, Andrde Borillo, Annie Delaveau, Jean Marie Marandin, Jean-Pierre ... potential generality: having a separate general set of rules able to generate a set of accept- able interpretations would significantly alleviate the task of storing and handling semantic information. ... Krifka de- fines telic/atelic as a predicate of predicates; the lat- ter have objects as well as events in their domains, and, linguistically, they are nominal as well as ver- bal predicates....