On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:30:46 +0800 Laurence Horn > Yes, it heats cold (or lukewarm) water, but its function is to heat > water hot. If "hot" is a resultative rather than a depictive, it > makes sense and isn't really pleonastic. Dazzling. I am sure you have other examples of resultive pseudo-pleonasms. D