English Resultatives

A force-recipient account

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Seizi Iwata | Kansei University

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The objective of this book is to develop a force-recipient account of English resultatives. Within this approach the post-verbal NP is a recipient of a verbal force, whether it is a subcategorized object or not, and the verbal force being exerted onto the post-verbal NP is responsible for bringing about the change as specified by the result phrase. It is shown that many apparent puzzles posed by English resultatives are due to the complex interplay between the verb meaning and the constructional meaning, or between the verb meaning and the semantics of the result phrase. Thus the proposed account can provide answers to the question “Which resultatives are possible and which are not?” in a coherent way. Also, the proposed account reveals that English resultatives are not a monolithic phenomenon, and that some “resultatives” cited in the literature as such are not resultatives at all. This book is of interest not only to practitioners of Construction Grammar but also to everyone interested in English resultatives.

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 26] 2020. xx, 549 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 2 March 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.26

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. xix–xx

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–20

Part I. A force-recipient account

Chapter 2. The status of the post-verbal NP | pp. 23–46

Chapter 3. Force transmission as essential to resultatives | pp. 47–68

Part II. So-called idiomatic cases

Chapter 4. He laughed his head off | pp. 71–97

Chapter 5. They beat the hell out of me | pp. 99–130

Part III. Resultatives and domains

Chapter 6. Resultatives with verbs of eating and drinking I | pp. 133–156

Chapter 7. Resultatives with verbs of eating and drinking II | pp. 157–170

Chapter 8. He laughed himself silly | pp. 171–187

Part IV. ‘Change verb’ resultatives and how to accommodate them

Chapter 9. ‘Change verb’ resultatives | pp. 191–210

Chapter 10. What are spurious resultatives? | pp. 211–237

Chapter 11. Resultatives with open/shut | pp. 239–256

Part V. On the result component

Chapter 12. To result phrases vs. into result phrases | pp. 259–285

Chapter 13. Adjectival result phrases vs. prepositional result phrases | pp. 287–307

Chapter 14. Consequences of the AP/PP distinction | pp. 309–325

Part VI. Still further issues surrounding adjectival result phrases

Chapter 15. Maximal end-point constraint reconsidered | pp. 329–343

Chapter 16. Selectional restrictions on adjectival result phrases | pp. 345–360

Chapter 17. Temporal dependence reconsidered | pp. 361–382

Part VII. Resultatives that are not based on force-transmission

Chapter 18. Princess Anne rides to victory | pp. 385–410

Chapter 19. Resultatives with free | pp. 411–428

Part VIII. Putative resultatives

Chapter 20. Follow and disappear | pp. 431–449

Chapter 21. Verbs of sound emission followed by a path PP | pp. 451–476

Chapter 22. Reconsidering the parallel between change of state and change of location | pp. 477–483

Part IX. Still another putative constraint

Chapter 23. Unique path constraint reconsidered | pp. 487–500

Chapter 24. To one’s death | pp. 501–509

Chapter 25. Summary and conclusion | pp. 511–529

“ Winner of the 2020 "English Linguistics Society in Japan" Award. ”

“ English Resultatives: A force-recipient account presents a masterly synthesis of the English resultative construction, based on detailed corpus analysis of British and American English. Iwata presents a force dynamic analysis of English resultative constructions that addresses many of the issues found with earlier accounts. In Iwata’s analysis, schematic construction meanings interact with rich verb meanings to account for the distributional patterns of verbs in resultative constructions and the semantic interpretation of particular verbs in the resultative construction. English Resultatives will serve as the reference point for future research on the resultative construction in English and other languages.”

William A. Croft, University of New Mexico, USA

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