Abstract
This study described lexical rules such as the ergative formation, the middle formation, and the adjectival passive formation in English. Furthermore, this study proposed that the resultative formation is one of the lexical rules, which involves the addition of a result argument as well as an event argument, which necessitates an additional argument depending on the verb type. Unlike transitive verbs and unaccusative verbs, unergative verbs involve the addition of an element, which can be promoted to an argument. The Direct Object Restriction, which is within a broader locality condition, is satisfied. This study further showed that a lexical rule can be applied only if a necessary condition for the rule application is satisfied, although it is not a sufficient condition. Moreover, a rule ordering may constrain or permit the combination of more than one lexical rules, which were discussed in details with examples. Lastly, the parametric difference in whether or not the resultative construction in a language involves a lexical operation may account for a crosslinguistic difference.
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