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  • Paying tribute

  • Brian D. Joseph
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 83 / Issue 1 / March 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 5-7
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  • The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions

  • Adele E. Goldberg, Ray Jackendoff
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 80 / Issue 3 / September 2004
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    19 February 2026, pp. 532-568

  • English resultative expressions have been a major focus of research on the syntax-semantics interface. We argue in this article that a family of related constructions is required to account for their distribution. We demonstrate that a number of generalizations follow from the semantics of the constructions we posit: the syntactic argument structure of the sentence is predicted by general principles of argument linking; and the aspectual structure of the sentence is determined by the aspectual structure of the constructional subevent, which is in turn predictable from general principles correlating event structure with change, extension, motion, and paths. Finally, the semantics and syntax of resultatives explain the possibilities for temporal relations between the two sub-events. While these generalizations clearly exist, there is also a great deal of idiosyncrasy involved in resultatives. Many idiosyncratic instances and small subclasses of the construction must be learned and stored individually. This account serves to justify aspects of what we share in our overall vision of grammar, what we might call the CONSTRUCTIONAL view. To the extent that our treatment of the resultative can be stated only within the constructional view, it serves as evidence for this view as a whole.

  • The Psychological Reality of Ocp-Place in Arabic

  • Stefan A. Frisch, Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 77 / Issue 1 / March 2001
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    19 February 2026, pp. 91-106

  • The psychological reality of an abstract consonant dissimilation constraint is demonstrated in an experiment with native speakers of Jordanian Arabic. In this experiment, novel verbs containing constraint violations and those without violations were presented orthographically for judgments of well-formedness. Native speaker well-formedness judgments reflected knowledge of the phono-tactic constraint. Systematic gaps were rated much less wordlike than accidental gaps that were equivalent in their lexical characteristics. Judgments for novel verbs containing constraint violations were also gradiently influenced by consonant pair similarity. The experimental study supports previous dictionary-based phonotactic analyses that propose that the native speaker's knowledge of consonant cooccurrence constraints in Arabic is based on emergent generalizations over the lexical items in an abstract root lexicon.

  • Charles A. Ferguson

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 75 / Issue 4 / December 1999
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    19 February 2026, pp. 781-800
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