On the Historical Development of the Resultative Construction ; Using the Parsed Diachronic Corpora

本研究的目的是利用两个历时语料库：YCOE（古英语）和PPCME 2（中古英语），选择古英语和中古英语中可能的结果结构。Windows的KWIC索引程序用于对以标签[IP-SMC]开头的小条款进行索引。在这两个语料库中共发现了约6,400个小从句。结果发现，在YCOE语料库中发现了1个动结式，在PPCME 2语料库中发现了31个动结式。我们在维瑟（Visser，1967）之前的研究基础上增加了新的发现：11个动词（bake、well（意思是煮）、to-breken（意思是打破）、pierce、put（意思是推）、stamp、cut、shut、colour、hew、strike）和8个结果谓词（blind、fast、full、hard、hot、short、stark（意思是强）、白色）。

The aim of this research is to select the possible resultative constructions in Old English and Middle English, using the two parsed diachronic corpora ; YCOE (Old English) and PPCME2 (Middle English). The KWIC Concordance Program for Windows was used to make a concordance of the small clauses beginning with the tag [IP-SMC]. About 6,400 small clauses were found in the two parsed corpora. Then we checked whether the resultative construction exists from among the small clauses.As the result of the research, one example was found in the YCOE corpus and 31 examples were found in the PPCME2 corpus. We add the new findings to the previous study conducted by Visser (1967) ; the eleven verbs (bake, well (meaning boil), to-breken (meaning break up), pierce, put (meaning push), stamp, cut ,shut, colour, hew, strike) and the 8 resultative predicates (blind, fast, full, hard, hot, short, stark (meaning strong), white).