Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgements xix
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. A force-recipient account
6. Chapter 2. The status of the post-verbal NP 23
7. Chapter 3. Force transmission as essential to resultatives 47
8. Part II. So-called idiomatic cases
9. Chapter 4. He laughed his head off 71
10. Chapter 5. They beat the hell out of me 99
11. Part III. Resultatives and domains
12. Chapter 6. Resultatives with verbs of eating and drinking I 133
13. Chapter 7. Resultatives with verbs of eating and drinking II 157
14. Chapter 8. He laughed himself silly 171
15. Part IV. ‘Change verb’ resultatives and how to accommodate them
16. Chapter 9. ‘Change verb’ resultatives 191
17. Chapter 10. What are spurious resultatives? 211
18. Chapter 11. Resultatives with open / shut 239
19. Part V. On the result component
20. Chapter 12. To result phrases vs. into result phrases 259
21. Chapter 13. Adjectival result phrases vs. prepositional result phrases 287
22. Chapter 14. Consequences of the AP/PP distinction 309
23. Part VI. Still further issues surrounding adjectival result phrases
24. Chapter 15. Maximal end-point constraint reconsidered 329
25. Chapter 16. Selectional restrictions on adjectival result phrases 345
26. Chapter 17. Temporal dependence reconsidered 361
27. Part VII. Resultatives that are not based on force-transmission
28. Chapter 18. Princess Anne rides to victory 385
29. Chapter 19. Resultatives with free 411
30. Part VIII. Putative resultatives
31. Chapter 20. Follow and disappear 431
32. Chapter 21. Verbs of sound emission followed by a path PP 451
33. Chapter 22. Reconsidering the parallel between change of state and change of location 477
34. Part IX. Still another putative constraint
35. Chapter 23. Unique path constraint reconsidered 487
36. Chapter 24. To one’s death 501
37. Chapter 25. Summary and conclusion 511
38. References 531
39. Index of constructions 545
40. Subject index 547