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Alexander in JEAL

February 24, 2026 Linguistics | Philosophy

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The main event in resultatives.

Now out in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics, "The main event in resultatives," in which Alexander reviews what modification and negation tell us about the logical form of resultatives, such as English cut open or Mandarin qie dun 'cut dull'. The paper is part of a special issue on resultatives, with further contributions from Beth Levin (already) and others (coming soon).