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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010 Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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A new look at the unproductivity of resultative constructions in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2023 Typical resultative constructions in English are unavailable in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and in Romance. This fact has been attributed by previous studies to different event-framings, following the Talmian view.
Bruna Elisa da Costa Moreira
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The Syntax of European Portuguese Resultatives
Isogloss, 2022 This study attempts to propose a syntactic distinction between true resultatives and pseudo-resultatives and to provide an overview of the resultative constructions in European Portuguese (EP).
Jiaojiao Yao
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False resultatives: The interaction of agreement and creation in Northern Galilee Levantine Arabic
Glossa, 2021 Arabic dialects in general do not allow resultatives. We present here novel data from a dialect of Levantine Arabic, Northern Galilee Arabic, which show that Arabic does have a subtype of resultatives: false resultatives (Rapoport 1999; Mateu 2000; Zarka
Aya Zarka, Tova Rapoport
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Source-Marking Resultatives in Estonian [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 Estonian has two types of resultative clauses - goal-marking (GM) and source-marking (SM) resultative clauses. Both can be either intransitive or transitive.
Mati Erelt
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Talmy’s typology in serializing languages: Variations on a VP
Glossa, 2022 Two types of resultative constructions that are unevenly distributed across languages (Talmy 2000) can be identified based on the lexicalization of manner and result meaning in the verbal main predicate: resultative secondary predication lexicalizes the ...
Jens Hopperdietzel
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Resultative Predicates in Japanese
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Washio (1997; 1999) observes that resultative predicates are divided into two different groups, strong and weak resultatives, depending on ‘patienthood’ of the object. This typology of resultatives seems to capture a point of crosslinguistic variation in
Kaori Takamine
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Languages, 2023 This article proposes a new description of Cantonese causative–resultative constructions (CRCs), constructions with two verbal elements relevant to the cause and the effect of an event respectively.
Ryan Ka Yau Lai, Michelle Man-Long Pang
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Resultatives in Korean Revisited: Complementation versus Adjunction
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 Korean resultatives are divided into two types depending on whether the subject of a resultative secondary predicate is assigned accusative case or nominative case. The former is comparable to selected object resultatives (e.g., Mary wipe the table clean)
Minjeong Son
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Fausses infinitives de but et mirativité
Anglophonia, 2020 This article aims to analyse complex constructions with infinitival clauses which have hardly ever been taken into account, and whose infinitives imply, contrary to most infinitives, the validation of their semantic content.
Geneviève Girard-Gillet
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