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Levantine Arabic Resultatives and AgreementResultatives and Agreement • September 10th, 2021
Introduction. Arabic dialects in general do not allow resultatives. This paper introduces novel data that demonstrate that Levantine Arabic (L.Arabic) does in fact have a subtype of resultatives: FALSE RESULTATIVES (Rapoport 1999, Mateu 2000). Unlike true resultative secondary predicates, which add a result to an activity predicate, false resultative predicates (RPreds) add a specification/emphasis of the final result that is inherent in the verb of an accomplishment predicate (Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995, Rapoport 2019, a.o.):
