TY - JOUR
T1 - Resultative constructions with implied-result and entailed-result verbs in Thai and English
T2 - A contrastive study
AU - Thepkanjana, Kingkarn
AU - Uehara, Satoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
* This research was supported by a Basic Research Grant from the Thailand Research Fund (No. BRG 4780019) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from Japan Soci-ety for the Promotion of Science (No. 15520241). We are grateful to Masayoshi Shiba-tani and Susumu Kuno for their comments and suggestions provided at an early stage in the preparation of this article. Our thanks also go to two anonymous reviewers of Linguistics for comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this article. We also thank Andy Klatt for providing English data and to Rob Troyer for textual improve-ments. Correspondence address: Kingkarn Thepkanjana, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Road, Bangkok 10330, Thai-land. E-mail: kingkarn.t@chula.ac.th.
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - This study aims to make a contrastive investigation of the Thai and English transitive-based resultative constructions which consist of a causative predicate indicated by a transitive verb and a resultative predicate linguistically realized as a verb in Thai and an adjective in English. The resultative constructions which are the object of study in this article are those in which the causative predicate is manifested by two kinds of transitive verbs postulated in this article, namely, "implied-result verbs" and "entailed-result verbs". This article examines one of the syntactic-semantic behavioral properties of both types of verb in both languages when they co-occur with resultative predicates. It is found in this article that English implied-result and entailed-result verbs are much more restricted in taking resultative predicates than the Thai counterparts. In other words, Thai resultative constructions are more productive than English ones. The productivity in the case of the former is attributed to the aspectual profile shift operating in serial verb constructions in Thai. Thai resultative constructions are arguably an instantiation of serial verb constructions. Resultative constructions in Thai allow both conventionalized as well as unconventionalized scenes to be expressed. In contrast, only conventionalized scenes can be expressed by resultative constructions in English.
AB - This study aims to make a contrastive investigation of the Thai and English transitive-based resultative constructions which consist of a causative predicate indicated by a transitive verb and a resultative predicate linguistically realized as a verb in Thai and an adjective in English. The resultative constructions which are the object of study in this article are those in which the causative predicate is manifested by two kinds of transitive verbs postulated in this article, namely, "implied-result verbs" and "entailed-result verbs". This article examines one of the syntactic-semantic behavioral properties of both types of verb in both languages when they co-occur with resultative predicates. It is found in this article that English implied-result and entailed-result verbs are much more restricted in taking resultative predicates than the Thai counterparts. In other words, Thai resultative constructions are more productive than English ones. The productivity in the case of the former is attributed to the aspectual profile shift operating in serial verb constructions in Thai. Thai resultative constructions are arguably an instantiation of serial verb constructions. Resultative constructions in Thai allow both conventionalized as well as unconventionalized scenes to be expressed. In contrast, only conventionalized scenes can be expressed by resultative constructions in English.
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U2 - 10.1515/LING.2009.020
DO - 10.1515/LING.2009.020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:66249095955
SN - 0024-3949
VL - 47
SP - 589
EP - 618
JO - Linguistics
JF - Linguistics
IS - 3
ER -