Abstract
The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative analysis of the English resultative construction in a framework of cognitive grammar and to illustrate its superiority over existing syntactic and lexical-semantic approaches to the phenomenon. The analysis here makes use of a graphic representation of an integrated cognitive model, based on Langacker's (1990) canonical event model and Croft's (1990) causal chain. Moreover, the cognitive linguistic account reveals that the manner in which an event is construed determines whether or not the resultative construction may be employed in a given context.
