Zeno Vendler | |
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| Born | December 22, 1921 |
| Died | January 13, 2004 (aged 82) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
Main interests | Philosophy of language |
Notable ideas | Verbal aspect |
Zeno Vendler (December 22, 1921 – January 13, 2004) was an American philosopher of language, and a founding member and former director of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His work on lexical aspect,[1] quantifiers,[1] and nominalization[2] has been influential in the field of linguistics.