the resultative construction. In path resultatives, the resultative construction describes a path that is traversed by the host.

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Verbal resultatives

This sort of resultative is a grammatical aspect construction that indicates the result state of the event denoted by the verb. English does not have a productive resultative construction. It is widely accepted that the be-perfects of various European languages (e.g. French, Italian, German, and Dutch) began as resultative

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