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Conclusions

The explanation of the modification of manner of motion and unaccusative verbs via pseudo-complementation clearly bears a certain resemblance to Wechsler's account of the resultative construction, in that they both assume something like an ``inherent endpoint'' for certain verbs which must unify with the semantics of the phrase which aims to specify this endpoint. However, on my account this ``endpoint'' is directly licensed by lexical semantic structure, as reflected in the semantic relation type hierarchy, rather than background information governing verb use and as such captures constraints on this kind of sense extension in a semantically motivated manner. This approach does not have the stipulative nature of Wechsler's account as it isolates these manner of motion and sound emission cases from true Resultatives. Furthermore it accommodates ``endpoints'' which aren't really endpoints at all, in that manner of motion verbs licenses go-rels with general path arguments rather than requiring a locative endpoint.