telic

adj

1. Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end.

   “Several theorists of the previous chapters are supportive of this more telic view of human nature.”

   “They were asked to rate the 36 activities for how purposeful they were.[…]Comparing the 10 most telic and the 10 most paratelic we found that the paratelic leisure activities were thought to involve less skill or challenge; they were also judged to satisfy social needs more, and to be more enjoyable.”

   “I have certainly become more telic as I strive to achieve my goals set, but I am not really enjoying any of it.”

2. That expresses an end or purpose.

   “Similarly, verb forms that can govern either transitive or middle-case marking (cf. 2.1.3.1.2(c)) are more telic in their transitive manifestations.”

   “Moreover, let us remember that some verbs can be telic and agentive at the same time: if one looks at the ASH category n°1 (change of location), i.e. the verbs considered the most telic, like FF arriver (arrive), partir (leave), venir (come), revenir (come back) (Sorace 2000:256), old Spanish huir (run away) and escapar (escape) (Legendre 2007), do they not bear an agentive component?”

3. That expresses the perfective aspect.