Result XPs and the Argument-Adjunct Distinction
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Proceedings of LFG13; CSLI Publications On-line
In this paper I discuss the English resultative and its status in terms of the argumenthood of the result phrase. By utilizing 8 tests for argumenthood, I will show that the result phrase is an added or derived argument, as discussed in Needham and Toivonen (2011), which, although syntactically optional, acts in most other ways as an argument of the verb.
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