Tsuneko Nakazawa: Resultatives in Japanese as Adjuncts

This paper investigates resultative phrases in Japanese and shows that their behaviors are more consistent with adjuncts than with obligatorily controlled complements as proposed by some authors. It is shown that, as expected of adjuncts, Japanese resultative phrases iterate, and do not always take a predetermined argument of the main verb as the semantic subject or as the antecedent of a reflexive contained in resultative phrases. A lexical rule account is given, which analyzes resultative phrases as adverbials and places them on the valence list of the main verb.

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