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Resultative Construction (Attr: to-INF)

Name Resultative Construction (Attr: to-INF)
Semantic function of cxn An ÆFFECTOR causes a change (or no change) of state in an ÆFFECTED with a certain RESULT.
Slots Slot 1: argument Slot 2: predicate Slot 3: argument Slot 4: argument
Semantic role of slots ÆFFECTOR ÆFFECTED RESULT

Syntactic function  

 potential subject unit in predicate unit in predicate
Syntactic form NP V NP to-INF
Example They appointed her to run the campaign.
Collo-profile
appoint  bind  clear  commit  dare  declare  design  employ  find  hire  invest  leave  make  pay  plan  send  shape  sign  suffer  trust  use  
Sources for collo-profile Valency Dictionary of English, Patternbank
Cxn with same formal pattern Attribute Construction (Attr: to-INF) (She pronounced him to be the winner.)
Ditransitive Construction (Obj: to-INF) (She asked him to come to the meeting.)
General cxn-type Active-3-Argument-Structure Construction
Construction family Attribute Constructions
Literature Goldberg & Jackendoff 2004
Annotators/Date TRH/03/21