Wechsler

I turn next to a more semantically-based analysis of resultative constructions, proposed by Wechsler wechsler:96, in which the syntactic mechanisms are handled by HPSG (Pollard and Sag 1994) and the behaviour of different verbs with respect to the resultative construction depends on background information encoded in the lexical entries of the verbs.

 
• 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