Resultatives as Causal Relations between Events
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This paper investigates some resultative constructions in English, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. It will be argued that the Direct Object Restriction (DOR) used in previous syntactic accounts is not correct. This paper examines the typical resultative constructions in English and Korean and, within the framework of event semantics, offers a proper semantic account of the relevant data on the basis of the semantic relationships of the lexical items. The analysis makes use of the notions such as ‘event,’ ‘appropriate result,’ etc. In addition, it will be shown that the proposed account is also useful for explaining the socalled resultative Verb-Verb Compounds (VVCs) in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.
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