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There is an intuitive difference between the resultative soggy in John sneezed the tissue soggy and the resultative flat in John hammered the metal flat. The first, intransitive resultative seems to introduce both a result state and an argument (cf. *John sneezed the tissue); while the second, transitive resultative seems to indicate the result state of an existing object argument (cf. John hammered the metal). Uniform analyses (e.g., Kratzer 2005, Williams 2015) treat both kinds of resultatives as syntactically and semantically identical, while non-uniform analyses (e.g., Randall 2010) treat them differently. We find that the verbal prefix re- provides an additional argument for a non-uniform analysis, since it is only compatible with transitive resultatives: John rehammered the metal flat, but *John resneezed the tissue soggy (cf. Keyser & Roeper 1992). We show that the readings re- and again produce in transitive resultatives are most easily accounted for in a syntax with multidominance, which allows the object to be simultaneously a semantic argument of the verb and of the resultative predicate.
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