@article{46,
  author = {Adele Goldberg and Ray Jackendoff},
  title = {The English resultative as a family of constructions},
  abstract = {<p>English resultative expressions have been a major focus of research on the syntax-se<br>interface. We argue in this article that a family of related constructions is required to acc<br>their distribution. We demonstrate that a number of generalizations follow from the sem<br>the constructions we posit: the syntactic argument structure of the sentence is predicted by g<br>principles of argument linking; and the aspectual structure of the sentence is determine<br>aspectual structure of the constructional subevent, which is in turn predictable from general<br>ples correlating event structure with change, extension, motion, and paths. Finally, the se<br>and syntax of resultatives explain the possibilities for temporal relations between the tw<br>events. While these generalizations clearly exist, there is also a great deal of idiosyncrasy<br>in resultatives. Many idiosyncratic instances and small subclasses of the construction<br>learned and stored individually. This account serves to justify aspects of what we sha<br>overall vision of grammar, what we might call the CONSTRUCTIONAL view. To the extent<br>treatment of the resultative can be stated only within the constructional view, it serves as<br>for this view as a whole.</p>},
  year = {2004},
  journal = {Language},
  volume = {80},
  number = {3},
  pages = {532{\textendash}568},
  publisher = {Linguistic Society of America},
  url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/4489722},
}