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Resultative Constructions: Syntax, World Knowledge, and Collocational Restrictions. Review of Hans C. Boas: A Constructional Approach to Resultatives

Subject Areas: Resultative Constructions

Title: Resultative Constructions: Syntax, World Knowledge, and Collocational Restrictions. Review of Hans C. Boas: A Constructional Approach to Resultatives

This article appeared in 2005 in Studies in Language 29(3), pages 651–681.

This review of Hans C. Boas' book A Constructional Approach to Resultatives discusses Boas' enumerative approach, the reference to world knowledge in lexical items and the capturing of generalizations with regard to resultative constructions by making use of lexical rules.

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