Manner of Motion Verbs and Resultatives

 

 
• Introduction
• Levin and Rappaport Hovav (1995)
  • The account
  • Problems with the Levin and Rappaport Hovav analysis
    • Auxiliary Selection
    • Resultative Constructions
    • Causative Alternation
    • Conclusions
• Semantic properties
  • The meaning of the constructions
  • Argument Structure
  • Idiosyncrasy of Resultatives
  • Conclusions
• Wechsler
  • Wechsler's approach
  • Discussion of the approach
    • The problem of the `canonical end state'
    • The problem of the optional TELOS feature
    • The problem of idiosyncrasy
    • Semantics
  • Conclusions
• Construction Grammar
• Criteria which the solution must satisfy
  • What licenses the constructions?
  • Why are only two classes of unergative verbs different from all the others?
  • Semantics of the constructions
  • Semantic restrictedness
• The proposal
  • Resultatives
    • Formalisation in HPSG
    • Ruling out ungrammatical instances
  • The other constructions
    • Manner of Motion verbs
    • Unaccusatives
    • Verbs of Sound Emission
    • Conclusions
  • Causativisation revisited
  • Idiosyncrasy and Pragmatics
• Conclusions