17.1868, Sum: Resultatives in English and Icelandic

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Date: 20-Jun-2006
From: Matthew Whelpton < whelpton at hi.is >
Subject: Resultatives in English and Icelandic 

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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:24:54
From: Matthew Whelpton < whelpton at hi.is >
Subject: Resultatives in English and Icelandic 

Regarding Query:  http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-757.html#1

I would like to thank the following linguists for their extremely helpful
replies: Cristiano Broccias, Javier Perez Guerra, Jasper Holmes, Chao Li,
Jose-Luis Mendivil, Richard Hudson, Andrew McIntyre, Hans C. Boas and Janet Randall.

A reference list is given below. My own preliminary survey of resultatives in 
Icelandic is now available at: http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000292. I have 
also added one or two new references myself. 

Chao Li included this useful group of references to Scandinavian 
resultatives:
Icelandic: (Levin & Rappaport Hovav, 1995, p. 45)
Danish: (Green, 1975)
Norwegian: (Dimitrova-Vulchanova, 2003; Kratzer, 2005; Lødrup, 2000; 
Oya, 2002)
Norwegian resultative particles: (Åfarli, 1985)

Many thanks to the community for its help with this!
Matthew.

References:
Åfarli, T. A. (1985). Norwegian verb particle constructions as causative 
constructions. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 8, 75-98.
Beck, S., and Snyder, William. (2001). The Resultative Parameter and 
Restitutive Again. In C. F. a. W. Sternefeld (Ed.), Audiatur Vox Sapientiae? A 
Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow (pp. 48-69). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
Boas, H. C. (2003). Resultative Constructions in English and German. 
Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Boas, H. C. (2005). Determining the productivity of resultatives: A reply to 
Goldberg and Jackendoff. Language, 81(2), 448-464.
Broccias, C. (2003). The English Change Network: Forcing Changes into 
Schemas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Broccias, C. (2004a). Adjective Selection in Resultative Sentences. In C. 
Taylor, M. G. Busà & S. Gesuato (Eds.), Lingua inglese e mediazione 
interlinguistica (pp. 241-260). Padova: Unipress.
Broccias, C. (2004b). The Cognitive Basis of Adjectival and Adverbial 
Resultative Constructions. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2, 103-
126.
Carrier, J., & Randall, J. H. (1992). The Argument Structure and Syntactic 
Structure of Resultatives. Linguistic Inquiry, 23, 173-234.
Dimitrova-Vulchanova, M. (2003). On two types of result: Resultatives 
revisited. Paper presented at the TROSS 03.
Embick, D. (2004). On the structure of resultative participles in English. 
Linguistic Inquiry, 35, 355-392.
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Green, G. M. (1975). Tracing the source of a lexical gap. In M. Saltarelli & D. 
Wanner (Eds.), Diachronic Studies in Romance Linguistics (pp. 55-61). The 
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Holmes, J. W. (2005). Lexical properties of English verbs. University College, 
London.
Kratzer, A. (2005). Building Resultatives. In C. Maienborn & A. Wöllstein-
Leisten (Eds.), Events in Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse (pp. 177-212). 
Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Levin, B., & Rappaport Hovav, M. (1995). Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-
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Lødrup, H. (2000). Underspecification in Lexical Mapping Theory: The case 
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Argument Realization (Vol. 171-188). Stanford: CSLI Publications.
McIntyre, A. (2004). Event paths, conflation, argument structure, and VP 
shells. Linguistics, 42(3), 523-571.
Müller, S. (2002). Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative 
Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Oh, E., & Zubizarreta, M. L. (2004). What the Korean Manner-of-Motion 
Construction Can Teach Us about the Lexicon-Syntax Interface, Seoul.
Oya, T. (2002). Reflexives and resultatives: Some differences between 
English and German. Linguistics, 40, 961-986.
Perez-Guerra, J. (2003). Revisiting English secondary predicates: Can the 
window be opened wider? Studia Linguistica, 57(3), 259-286.
Rappaport Hovav, M., & Levin, B. (2001). An Event Structure Account of 
English Resultatives. Language, 77(4), 766-797.
Rappaport Hovav, M., & Levin, B. (2005). Change of State Verbs: Implications 
for Theories of Argument Projection. In N. Erteschik-Shir & T. Rapoport 
(Eds.), The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual 
Interpretation (pp. 274-286). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wechsler, S. (2005a). Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument 
Homomorphism' Model of Telicity. In N. Erteschik-Shir & T. Rapoport (Eds.), 
The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation (pp. 
255-273). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wechsler, S. (2005b). Weighing in on Scales: a Reply to Goldberg and 
Jackendoff. Language 81(2), 465-473. 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Icelandic (isl)

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