Resultatives in English and Dutch have developed special degree readings. These readings stem from a reinterpretation of the resultative predicate as indicating a high degree rather than an actual result. For example, when a parent saysI love youtodeath, one need not call the cops, since the sentence is not about love turning lethal, but merely indicative of a high degree of affection. Such cases have often been noted in the literature as idiomatic, but this view ignores the fact that these are not isolated cases but productive constructions that can be used with a variety of verbs. We explore various resultative constructions in English and Dutch, and give a classification of the subtypes involved as well as their diachronic development from ordinary to degree interpretation. We link these subtypes to lexical semantic classes of verbs. Both English and Dutch show a steady growth in the lexical and structural diversity of degree resultatives throughout the early modern and contemporary periods (1600-2000). We focus in our paper on the period 1800-2000, for which we did an extensive corpus study using the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and Delpher (a collection of digitized Dutch newspapers, journals, magazines, and other resources). One of our findings is that, similar to other types of expressive language, such as degree modification and emphatic negation, taboo expressions play a role in degree resultatives; in fact, their role is excessive. We outline a number of the commonalities among the semantic domains of expressive language used in resultatives.

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作为二阶结构的度数结果

英语和荷兰语的结果已开发出特殊的学位读物。这些读数源于对结果谓词的重新解释，它表示高度而不是实际结果。例如，当父母说我爱你到死亡，不必报警，因为这句话不是关于爱情变得致命，而只是表示高度的感情。这种情况在文献中经常被认为是惯用的，但这种观点忽略了这样一个事实，即这些不是孤立的情况，而是可以与各种动词一起使用的生产性结构。我们探讨了英语和荷兰语中的各种结果式结构，并对所涉及的亚型进行了分类，以及它们从普通解释到学位解释的历时发展。我们将这些子类型与动词的词汇语义类别联系起来。在整个早期现代和当代时期（1600-2000 年），英语和荷兰语都显示出学位结果的词汇和结构多样性稳步增长。我们在论文中关注 1800-2000 年期间，为此，我们使用美国历史英语语料库 (COHA) 和 Delpher（数字化荷兰报纸、期刊、杂志和其他资源的集合）进行了广泛的语料库研究。我们的发现之一是，与其他类型的表达语言（例如程度修饰和强调否定）类似，禁忌表达在程度结果中发挥作用。事实上，他们的作用是过度的。我们概述了结果式中使用的表达性语言的语义域之间的一些共性。事实上，他们的作用是过度的。我们概述了结果式中使用的表达性语言的语义域之间的一些共性。事实上，他们的作用是过度的。我们概述了结果式中使用的表达性语言的语义域之间的一些共性。