The syntactic treatment of manner of motion and sound emission verbs as resultatives misses a semantic difference between these constructions and forces a change in argument structure which does not match the intuitive meaning conveyed by these verbs and has unclear consequences for linking. Furthermore, the evidence in favor of this account is not strong -- the conclusions which can be drawn from the causativisation data are unclear and the semantic issues raised are quite serious.
The discussion in this section has pointed to several factors which need to be taken into account in an adequate model of these constructions: the semantics of the constructions, which may not be capturable in terms of traditional compositional semantic models, the avoidence of lexical rules in the treatment of the extended sense of manner of motion verbs, conventionality in the use of the constructions, discourse coherence constraints, and variations in the syntactic form of the constructions.