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Review of English Resultative: A Force-Recipient Account
摘要
Whether generative approaches(such as a small clause analysis or lexical rule analysis), or constructional approaches(such as Goldbergs' constructional analysis and boas' frame semantic analysis) didn't give a persuasive account to the heatedly‐discussed English resultatives. Iwata gives it a force‐recipient account, which explains not only: Why can non‐subcategorized objects appear in resultatives? Which resultatives are possible and which are not?. The defining characteristic of the English resultatives is that basically, as a result of the force being exerted onto the post‐verbal NP entity (or the subject entity), a change of state or a change of location ensues (Iwata,2020, p.513). Besides, Iwata also clarifies what resultatives are based on the force‐transmission resultatives, and what are based on motion, and what are not resultatives contrary to traditional belief. Finally, Iwata makes a distinction between AP and PP result phrase in resultatives, and negates such restrictions as maximal endpoint constraints, end‐of-scale constraint, affectedness constraint, aspectual constraint, unique path constraint.