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False resultatives: The interaction of agreement and creation in Northern Galilee Levantine Arabic

What it is about

Resultative secondary predicates ("scrubbed the shirt clean") add an end state to an activity. The authors show that Northern Galilee Arabic, a Levantine dialect spoken by Druze in northern Israel, allows none of the true resultatives, but does allow false resultatives. A false resultative such as "sliced the bread thin" specifies a result that the verb already contains, so it does not change the aspect (the in-an-hour test) and does not entail that the object became thin. The data are judgements from native-speaker informants plus a few recorded examples. The key finding is that adjectival false resultatives come in two agreement patterns, and the pattern depends on whether the verb is an explicit creation verb (the created object is the thing modified) or an implicit one. Agreement therefore tracks the same distinction that Geuder and Levinson draw conceptually.

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For Mova

I1 goes into the event part of the English pipeline: prag for the result reading and world for the frame of a result-bearing verb. I2 is a lexicon feature in the en crate, and I3 is a test set for prag. The Arabic agreement data do not feed Mova now, since it does not parse Arabic yet; the card is kept for treebanks/ar only if that work starts.

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The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.5334/gjgl.1274

@article{rapoport2021false,
  title = {{False resultatives: The interaction of agreement and creation in Northern Galilee Levantine Arabic}},
  author = {Rapoport, Tova and Zarka, Aya},
  journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.5334/gjgl.1274},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1274}
}

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  51. TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Rapoport, Tova and Aya Zarka. 2021. False resultatives: The interaction of agreement and creation in Northern Galilee Levantine Arabic. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 19. 1–22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1274 ↗ our card
  52. Submitted: 07 April 2020 Accepted: 16 October 2020 Published: 16 February 2021 find
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