English resultatives : a force-recipient account / Seizi Iwata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iwata, Seizi, author.

Series:

Constructional Approaches to Language ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Verb phrase.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. A force-recipient account

Chapter 2. The status of the post-verbal NP

Chapter 3. Force transmission as essential to resultatives

Part II. So-called idiomatic cases

Chapter 4. He laughed his head off

Chapter 5. They beat the hell out of me

Part III. Resultatives and domains

Chapter 6. Resultatives with verbs of eating and drinking I

Chapter 7. Resultatives with verbs of eating and drinking II

Chapter 8. He laughed himself silly

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

Chapter 9. ‘Change verb’ resultatives

Chapter 10. What are spurious resultatives?

Chapter 11. Resultatives with open / shut

Part V. On the result component

Chapter 12. To result phrases vs. into result phrases

Chapter 13. Adjectival result phrases vs. prepositional result phrases

Chapter 14. Consequences of the AP/PP distinction

Part VI. Still further issues surrounding adjectival result phrases

Chapter 15. Maximal end-point constraint reconsidered

Chapter 16. Selectional restrictions on adjectival result phrases

Chapter 17. Temporal dependence reconsidered

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

Chapter 18. Princess Anne rides to victory

Chapter 19. Resultatives with free

Part VIII. Putative resultatives

Chapter 20. Follow and disappear

Chapter 21. Verbs of sound emission followed by a path PP

Chapter 22. Reconsidering the parallel between change of state and change of location

Part IX. Still another putative constraint

Chapter 23. Unique path constraint reconsidered

Chapter 24. To one’s death

Chapter 25. Summary and conclusion

References

Index of constructions

Subject index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027261595

9027261598