English resultatives : a force-recipient account /
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- 1.1. What this book is about
- 1.1.1. What are resultatives
- 1.1.2. Two questions raised by resultatives with non-subcategorized objects
- 1.2. How resultatives have been analyzed in Generative Grammar
- 1.2.1. Small clause analysis
- 1.2.2. Lexical rule approach
- 1.3. How resultatives have been analyzed in Construction Grammar
- 1.3.1. Goldberg (1995)
- 1.3.2. Boas (2003)
- 1.3.3. Short summary
- 1.4. analysis to be proposed in this book
- 1.4.1. How to answer the two questions
- 1.4.2. lexical-constructional approach
- 1.4.3. Methodology
- 1.4.4. Terminology
- 1.5. Organization of the book
- pt. I force-recipient account
- ch. 2 status of the post-verbal NP
- 2.0. Introduction to Part I
- 2.1. Toward the constructional meaning of resultatives
- 2.1.1. Boas (2003) once again
- 2.1.2. Three possible paraphrases
- 2.1.3. Problems with the first and second approaches
- 2.1.4. Force-recipient account
- 2.2. How force is transmitted
- 2.2.1. Wipe the crumbs off the table
- 2.2.2. Virtual pushing
- 2.3. Further illustrations of virtual actions
- 2.3.1. Push oneself to one's feet
- 2.3.2. Laugh
- off the stage
- 2.3.3. Sneeze
- out
- 2.4. Discourse patient?
- 2.5. Conclusion
- ch. 3 Force transmission as essential to resultatives
- 3.0. Introduction
- 3.1. Subcategorized object cases
- 3.1.1. Post-verbal NP as force-recipient
- 3.1.2. Types offeree
- 3.2. Verbal force as relativized to the result state
- 3.3. Non-subcategorized object cases again
- 3.3.1. So-called "unaccusative/unergative" distinction
- 3.3.2. Types of force, not types of participant roles
- 3.4. Intransitive resultatives based on intransitive verbs
- 3.5. Conclusion
- pt. II So-called idiomatic cases
- ch. 4 He laughed his head off
- 4.0. Introduction to Part II
- 4.1. V one's head off
- 4.1.1. Why does his head move off?
- 4.1.2. Force dynamics of `V one's head off'
- 4.1.3. Network of `V one's head off'
- 4.2. Two layers of meaning
- 4.3. Other related constructions
- 4.3.1. V one's eyes out
- 4.3.2. V one's heart out
- 4.3.3. V one's guts out
- 4.3.4. V one's lungs out
- 4.3.5. V one's socks off and V one's butt off
- 4.4. Discussion
- ch. 5 They beat the hell out of me
- 5.0. Introduction
- 5.1. construction which beat the hell out of is related to
- 5.1.1. Perek (2016)
- 5.1.2. `Beat
- out of' construction
- 5.2. Five types of beat
- out of
- 5.2.1. `Content coming out of a container' type
- 5.2.2. `Get rid of' type
- 5.2.3. `Get by coercion' type
- 5.2.4. `Physiological effect' type and `emotional effect' type
- 5.2.5. What the three schemas tell us
- 5.3. From beat the hell out of to `V the hell out of'
- 5.3.1. Beat the hell out of as the `emotional effect' type
- 5.3.2. From literal meaning to intensifier meaning
- 5.3.3. Polysemy network of `V the hell out of'
- 5.3.4. Interim conclusion
- 5.4. `V the shit out of' and `V the daylights out of'
- 5.4.1. Which types do beat the shit out of and beat the daylights out of belong to?
- 5.4.2. Polysemous networks of `V the daylights out of' and `V the shit out of'
- 5.5. Possible origins of `V
- out of' idioms
- 5.5.1. Beat the devil out of
- 5.5.2. Beat the stuffing out of
- 5.6. `V the life out of'
- 5.7. Two types of complement alternation
- 5.7.1. To death and shitless
- 5.7.2. Out of one's wits
- 5.8. Conclusion
- pt. III Resultatives and domains
- ch. 6 Resultatives with verbs of eating and drinking I
- 6.0. Introduction to Part III
- 6.1. How to analyze resultatives with eat and drink
- 6.1.1. Croft (2009)
- 6.1.2. More on the three phases
- 6.1.3. Complex causal chains for eat
- 6.1.4. Eat
- clean and eat oneself full
- 6.2. Eat oneself AP/PP
- 6.2.1. Eat themselves out of a food supply
- 6.2.2. Eat oneself to death
- 6.3. Drink oneself AP/PP
- 6.3.1. Drink oneself beautiful
- 6.3.2. Drink oneself silly
- 6.3.3. Drink oneself to death
- 6.4. Result states as relativized to the domains
- 6.5. Summary and conclusion
- ch. 7 Resultatives with verbs of eating and drinking II
- 7.0. Introduction
- 7.1. Eat
- out of house and home
- 7.1.1. caribou eat themselves out of house and home
- 7.1.2. He ate me out of house and home
- 7.2. Drink
- under the table
- 7.2.1. Two domains involved
- 7.2.2. "beating" sense as primary
- 7.3. Summary
- 7.4. Conclusion
- ch. 8 He laughed himself silly
- 8.0. Introduction
- 8.1. `V oneself silly'
- 8.1.1. Jackendoff (1997)
- 8.1.2. What does it mean to become "silly" as a result of laughing?
- 8.1.3. Short-lived result state
- 8.1.4. Other instances of `V oneself silly'
- 8.2. `V oneself stupid'
- 8.3. `V oneself sick'
- 8.4. Summary
- 8.5. Conclusion
- pt. IV `Change verb' resultatives and how to accommodate them
- ch. 9 `Change verb' resultatives
- 9.0. Introduction to Part IV
- 9.1. Weak resultatives and spurious resultatives
- 9.1.1. Pustejovsky (1991a)
- 9.1.2. Washio (1997)
- 9.1.3. Further characteristics of `change verb' resultatives
- 9.2. How change verb' resultatives are to be analyzed
- 9.2.1. What is the host of predication?
- 9.2.2. Unifying `change verb' resultatives with ordinary resultatives
- 9.3. Resultative caused-motion counterparts
- 9.3.1. Break the egg into the pan
- 9.3.2. Empty the tank into the sink
- 9.4. Still another issue raised by `change verb' resultatives
- 9.4.1. Result phrase-addition analysis
- 9.4.2. Result phrase construction
- 9.4.3. Summary
- 9.5. Conclusion
- ch. 10 What are spurious resultatives?
- 10.0. Introduction
- 10.1. Putative characteristics of spurious resultatives
- 10.2. Thinly
- 10.2.1. Adverbs that refer to a theme entity
- 10.2.2. Spread
- thinly, cut
- thinly
- 10.2.3. distinction between thin and thinly
- 10.3. Tight/tightly and loose/loosely
- 10.3.1. When the alternation is really possible
- 10.3.2. What does it mean to be tight?
- 10.3.3. Pull
- tight vs. pull
- tightly
- 10.3.4. Force persistence
- 10.3.5. Loose vs. loosely
- 10.4. Conclusion
- ch. 11 Resultatives with open/shut
- 11.0. Introduction
- 11.1. How a door becomes open/shut
- 11.1.1. Resultative caused-motion?
- 11.1.2. Co-occurrence of motion and change of state
- 11.1.3. Internalized translational motion
- 11.1.4. Co-extensiveness between change of state and internalized translational motion
- 11.2. Three types of open/shut expressions
- 11.2.1. Type 1
- 11.2.2. Type 2
- 11.2.3. Type 3
- 11.3. What the existence of the three types tells us
- 11.3.1. Washio's (1997) three types again
- 11.3.2. Why open may appear in all the three types of resultatives
- 11.3.3. unified analysis under the force-recipient account
- 11.4. Functional open
- 11.5. Conclusion
- pt. V On the result component
- ch. 12 To result phrases vs. into result phrases
- 12.0. Introduction to Part V
- 12.1. To a whisper
- 12.1.1. Point on a scale
- 12.1.2. Other similar cases
- 12.2. To death
- 12.2.1. Endpoint of a path
- 12.2.2. Short summary
- 12.3. Into a coma
- 12.4. To pieces vs. into pieces
- 12.4.1. Corpus data
- 12.4.2. Different aspects of becoming "pieces"
- 12.4.3. Other expressions for decomposition
- 12.5. In/Into alternation
- 12.5.1. In result phrase
- 12.5.2. Parallel with spatial paths
- 12.6. Conclusion
- ch. 13 Adjectival result phrases vs. prepositional result phrases
- 13.0. Introduction
- 13.1. Previous analyses
- 13.1.1. matter of conventionalization?
- 13.1.2. Tsuzuki (2003a, 2003b)
- 13.1.3. Problems with Tsuzuki (2003a, 2003b)
- 13.2. difference between an AP and a to-PP
- 13.2.1. Aspectual integration of the verbal event and the change of state
- 13.2.2. AP only' cases
- 13.2.3. `To-PP only' cases
- 13.2.4. Shoot
- dead vs. shoot
- to death
- 13.3. Differences between APs, to-PPs, and into-PPs
- 13.3.1. Into-PPs
- 13.3.2. Summary
- 13.4. How the choice of result phrases is really to be accounted for
- 13.4.1. Tsuzuki's (2003a, 2003b) proposal once again
- 13.4.2. Verspoor's (1997) data once again
- 13.5. Implications for the force-recipient account
- 13.6. Conclusion
- ch. 14 Consequences of the AP/PP distinction
- 14.0. Introduction
- 14.1. Aspectual constraint
- 14.1.1. Immediate result or not?
- 14.1.2. APs and PPs behave differently
- 14.1.3. Prepositional result phrases vs. path result phrases
- 14.2. She cried herself to sleep
- 14.2.1. Enabling causation
- 14.2.2. How to enable someone to sleep
- 14.2.3. How to enable oneself to sleep
- 14.2.4. Enabling causation in force dynamics
- 14.3. Conclusion
- pt. VI Still further issues surrounding adjectival result phrases
- ch. 15 Maximal end-point constraint reconsidered
- 15.0. Introduction to Part VI
- 15.1. Wechsler (2005a, 2005b)
- 15.2. Problems
- 15.3. Well-behaved data?
- 15.3.1. Wechsler (2012, 2015)
- 15.3.2. "well-behaved" data as an illusion
- 15.4. What is wrong with the maximal end-point constraint?
- 15.5. Conclusion
- ch. 16 Selectional restrictions on adjectival result phrases
- 16.0. Introduction
- 16.1. Subcategorized object cases
- 16.1.1. How the result state is brought about
- 16.1.2. Not a direct result but a consequence
- Contents note continued: 16.2. Wipe
- wet
- 16.2.1. wiping force once again
- 16.2.2. When and why wipe
- wet is possible
- 16.3. Fake object cases
- 16.3.1. Goldberg (1995), Vanden Wyngaerd (2001)
- 16.3.2. Where the apparent delimited endpoint comes from
- 16.4. Conclusion
- ch. 17 Temporal dependence reconsidered
- 17.0. Introduction
- 17.1. Rappaport Hovav & Levin (2001)
- 17.1.1. Two types of resultatives
- 17.1.2. Temporal coextensiveness
- 17.2. Temporal dependence is only part of the story
- 17.2.1. Problems with Rappaport Hovav & Levin (2001)
- 17.2.2. real difference between wriggle free and wriggle oneself free
- 17.2.3. Kick free
- 17.2.4. When the subevents are temporally co-extensive
- 17.3. Croft (2012)
- 17.3.1. Integrating force-dynamic and aspectual representations of event structure
- 17.3.2. Modifications needed
- 17.4. Conclusion
- pt. VII Resultatives that are not based on force-transmission
- ch. 18 Princess Anne rides to victory
- 18.0. Introduction to Part VII
- 18.1. To victory
- 18.1.1. Direct Object Restriction
- 18.1.2. Violation of the Direct Object Restriction
- 18.1.3. Apparent puzzle of to victory
- 18.2. To victory as a goal-achieving path
- 18.2.1. Why the Direct Object Restriction holds
- 18.2.2. Goal-like characteristics
- 18.2.3. Change of state that is based on a metaphor
- 18.2.4. Caused motion vs. simple motion
- 18.3. Further instances of changes of state effected by metaphorical changes of location
- 18.3.1. To success
- 18.3.2. To exhaustion
- 18.4. Changes of state which are effected by physical changes of location
- 18.4.1. To safety and to freedom
- 18.4.2. Out of sight
- 18.5. Conclusion
- ch. 19 Resultatives with free
- 19.0. Introduction
- 19.1. Does free denote an endpoint?
- 19.1.1. `Free as expressing an endpoint' thesis
- 19.1.2. Problems
- 19.2. `V
- free'
- 19.2.1. How to cause something to become free
- 19.2.2. Free vs. to freedom
- 19.2.3. Resultatives based on self-initiated force
- 19.3. Cut
- free
- 19.3.1. Apparent puzzle
- 19.3.2. `Separation'-cut
- 19.3.3. Cut
- free as a `change verb' resultative
- 19.3.4. Putative restriction
- 19.4. Conclusion
- pt. VIII Putative resultatives
- ch. 20 Follow and disappear
- 20.0. Introduction
- 20.1. Follow him out of the room
- 20.1.1. Another apparent counter-example to the Direct Object Restriction
- 20.1.2. Follow as a motion verb
- 20.1.3. Further-specifying path PPs
- 20.2. Other approaches
- 20.2.1. Rappaport Hovav & Levin (2001)
- 20.2.2. Goldberg & Jackendoff (2004)
- 20.3. Disappear down the road
- 20.3.1. Goldberg & Jackendoff (2004)
- 20.3.2. Disappear as a motion verb
- 20.3.3. How to become invisible
- 20.3.4. Whose visual field?
- 20.4. Conclusion
- ch. 21 Verbs of sound emission followed by a path PP
- 21.0. Introduction
- 21.1. Previous analyses
- 21.1.1. Levin & Rappaport Hovav (1995, 96, 99)
- 21.1.2. Goldberg & Jackendoff (2004)
- 21.1.3. Meaning shift or construction?
- 21.2. `Motion-describing' type
- 21.2.1. Parallel between manner and sound
- 21.2.2. Further parallels
- 21.3. `Motion-induced' type
- 21.3.1. Two types of sound emission
- 21.3.2. Motion-describing' type vs. `motion-induced' type
- 21.4. More on the distinction
- 21.5. Where there is a sound, there should be a motion
- 21.6. Verbs of sound emission followed by open/shut
- 21.6.1. Levin & Rappaport Hovav (1995)
- 21.6.2. fundamental problem
- 21.6.3. sound-emission event as describing an internalized translational motion
- 21.6.4. Functional open once again
- 21.7. Conclusion
- ch. 22 Reconsidering the parallel between change of state and change of location
- 22.0. Introduction
- 22.1. Putative parallel between change of state and change of location
- 22.1.1. Transitive cases
- 22.1.2. Intransitive cases
- 22.2. Motion expressions
- 22.3. Resultatives that are based on motion
- 22.4. Overall picture
- 22.5. Conclusion
- pt. IX Still another putative constraint
- ch. 23 Unique path constraint reconsidered
- 23.0. Introduction
- 23.1. Unique path constraint
- 23.1.1. Goldberg (1991a, 1995)
- 23.1.2. Adjectival result phrases do not denote paths
- 23.2. Why adjectival result phrases do not co-occur with path PPs
- 23.2.1. Co-occurrence of more than one result phrase
- 23.2.2. No special constraint is necessary
- 23.3. Still another distinction that has been overlooked
- 23.3.1. Why motion verbs do not co-occur with result phrases
- 23.3.2. Resultatives based on motion once again
- 23.4. Conclusion
- ch. 24 To one's death
- 24.1. Another instance of resultative based on motion?
- 24.2. Why to one's death means what it does
- 24.3. Contextual modulation
- 24.4. Conclusion
- ch. 25 Summary and conclusion
- 25.1. Resultative constructions under a force-recipient account
- 25.2. Answers to the two questions
- 25.2.1. Answer to the first question
- 25.2.2. Answer to the second question
- 25.3. How to arrived the observed syntax
- 25.4. Cross-linguistic differences
- 25.5. Final word.