Accounting for the variation in West Benue resultative constructions

This paper investigates the variation of resultative serial verb constructions in Benue-Kwa languages. The main claim is that can be explained assuming three versions general lexicon rules which turn verbs into complex predicates selecting for a second and attracting its arguments. Each language has specific version these rules, enriched with peculiarities to account behaviour verbal inflection. fact not all do operate each languages another source variation.