“…Since Halliday's (1967) work, resultative constructions have been investigated in many languages, such as English (Simpson, 1983;Hoekstra, 1988;Carrier & Randall, 1992;Levin & Rappaport Hovav, 1996;Bowers, 1997;Levinson, 2010;Beavers, 2012;Wechsler, 2001Wechsler, , 2015, German (Kratzer, 2005), Greek (Giannakidou & Merchant, 1999), Japanese (Washio, 1997), and BP (Foltran, 1999;Lobato, 2004;Marcelino, 2000Marcelino, , 2007Marcelino, , 2014Rech, 2007;Barbosa, 2008Barbosa, , 20212, 2018Bertucci, 2014;Knöpfle 2011Knöpfle , 2014Knöpfle , 2017aKnöpfle , 2017b. Classical examples of resultative constructions in English are illustrated in (8) below.…”