A Constructional Approach to Resultatives

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Syntactic Approaches to Resultatives
3. The Role of Event Structure and Lexical Semantics
4. The Role of Argument Structure Constructions
5. Towards a Usage-Based Analysis of Resultatives
6. Event Based Frame Semantics
7. Lexical Licensing of Resultatives
8. A Contrastive Look at Resultatives in English and German
9. Conclusions
Appendix A: Resultative Phrases
Appendix B: Verbs
Appendix C: English and German Resultatives
References
Name Index
Subject Index