Arguing our way to the Direct Object Restriction on English resultatives

Abstract Drawing on Hoekstra’s (1988f) work on so-called ‘small clause results’ and Marantz’s (1992) work on the way-construction and its relation to resultative constructions, in this article I argue my way to the conclusion that the so-called ‘Direct Object Restriction’ (DOR) on English resultatives must be reinstated, despite Rappaport Hovav and Levin’s (2001) claims to the contrary. First, I review some of the main properties of resultative constructions that appear to motivate the syntactic approach, whose main descriptive tenet is the DOR. In particular, I show that the present analysis... Mehr ...