In general, Chinese resultative constructions are widely believed to be highly productive. However, individual differences exist within these constructions, and not all result complements can freely form multiple constructions. Both dynamic adjectives...
In general, Chinese resultative constructions are widely believed to be highly productive. However, individual differences exist within these constructions, and not all result complements can freely form multiple constructions. Both dynamic adjectives and resultative constructions in Chinese can express the meaning of state change, both dynamic adjectives and regular adjectives can function as result complements within resultative constructions. This paper argues that the [dynamic] feature of adjectival result complements significantly influences the productivity of resultative constructions. This paper extensively examines and statistically analyzes occurrences of "VA了" resultative constructions in the BCC corpus from the perspective of adjectival result complements. The findings indicate that adjectival result complements with strong [dynamic] feature can combine more verbs, and impose fewer causativeness and semantic constraints in resultative constructions, thus showing higher productivity.