%0 Journal Article
%T Resultative Predicates in Japanese
%A Kaori Takamine
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2007
%I University of Troms?
%X Washio (1997; 1999) observes that resultative predicates are divided into two different groups, strong and weak resultatives, depending on ¡®patienthood¡¯ of the object. This typology of resultatives seems to capture a point of crosslinguistic variation in resultatives; Japanese has weak but not strong resultatives, while English has both. Washio also observes that there is another group of examples that bears a superficial resemblance to resultatives but constitutes a different phenomenon, hence spurious resultatives. The difference between weak and strong resultatives is made in terms of the ¡®affectedness¡¯ of the verb. Thus the typology of resultatives proposed by Washio is semantically grounded. In this paper, I propose: (i) a fine-grained distinction for Washio¡¯s weak resultatives: (ii) a syntactic analysis of the different resultative types. On the basis of syntactic evidence, I argue that there are two types of weak resultatives, an adjunct of VP and a complement of VP within the vP projection. I also argue that spurious resultatives are structurally higher than weak resultatives in Japanese.
%K Washio
%K typology of resultatives
%K weak resultatives
%K spurious resultatives
%K Japanese
%K decomposition
%K predication
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