Chapter 9
‘Change verb’ resultatives
Article outline
- 9.0 Introduction to Part IV
- 9.1Weak resultatives and spurious resultatives
- 9.1.1Pustejovsky (1991a)
- 9.1.2Washio (1997)
- 9.1.3Further characteristics of ‘change verb’ resultatives
- 9.2How ‘change verb’ resultatives are to be analyzed
- 9.2.1What is the host of predication?
- 9.2.2Unifying ‘change verb’ resultatives with ordinary
resultatives
- 9.3Resultative caused-motion counterparts
- 9.3.1Break the egg into the pan
- 9.3.2Empty the tank into the sink
- 9.4Still another issue raised by ‘change verb’ resultatives
- 9.4.1Result phrase-addition analysis
- 9.4.2Result phrase construction
- 9.4.3Summary
- 9.5Conclusion
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Notes