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Hello, a resultative structure needs an object that undergoes the result. These structures are related to (and sometimes indistinguishable from) phrasal verbs.
He took the trash out. (The trash is now "out" thanks to his "taking".)
He kicked the door open. (The door is now open, thanks to his kicking.)
"He'll shoot you dead, then he'll eat your head." (Blondie, "Rapture")
She cried herself to sleep.
"We went to town" is a simple action. Of course it has a result in this case ("We are in town"), but it's not a resultative structure because the result didn't happen to an object. On the other hand, "We drove ourselves to town" is one, because it now includes the object "ourselves".
The verb "get" is an easy way to use a resultative structure with almost any verb. And if there is no object, reflexivity is assumed.
We took our friends out and got them drunk, and then we got (ourselves) drunk.
After she got (herself) dressed, she got her children dressed and off to school.
Often the explicit inclusion of a reflexive object with "get" implies a particular intention or imprudence on the part of the actor. "We got killed" is fairly close in meaning to "We were killed", but "We got ourselves killed" implies either that we intentionally got someone to kill us, or that we exercised a particular lack of caution and are therefore at least partially to blame for our own demise.
See you.
Réponse : Info/ jour de gerondif, postée le 06-07-2020 à 17:25:06 (S | E)
Hello traviskidd
We think alike, for once ! Let's see if sami2601 agrees or not ! I hope this interesting topic will not remain unclosed.
Réponse : Info/ jour de sami2601, postée le 10-07-2020 à 08:43:31 (S | E)
Merci à tous pour vos explications
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