A Constructional Approach to Resultatives (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

Providing a unified solution within the frameworks of Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, Hans Boas develops an account of resultative constructions in English by grouping them in two classes: conventionalized and non-conventionalized. The usage-based model used here proposes that each particular sense of a verb constitutes a conventionalized mini-construction, which is crucial information for the licensing of arguments. In contrast, verbs in non-conventionalized resultative constructions can acquire a novel meaning and thereby a new syntactic frame. English and German resultatives are compared to illustrate the distinct lexical polysemy networks of English and German verbs.Hans C. Boas is the author of 'A Constructional Approach to Resultatives (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)', published 2003 under ISBN 9781575864075 and ISBN 157586407X.