Some differences between English and Romanian resultative constructions

It is a generally accepted fact that Romance languages behave differently from English and other Germanic languages as far as the building of resultative constructions is concerned. The wide availability of resultatives in English is in sharp contrast with their less frequent occurrence in Romanian;...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Imola-Ágnes Farkas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2009-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/some_differences_between_english_and_romanian_resultative_constructions