Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 The Phenomena 1.2 Background Assumptions 1.2.1 Head Movement 1.2.2 Labeling Algorithm 1.3 Overall Argument 1.4 Layout of the Book Chapter 2 Literature Review 2.1 Resultatives in Generative Grammar 2.1.1 Event Structures in Resultatives 2.1.2 Semantic Account of Argument Realization 2.1.3 Underlying Syntactic Representations 2.1.4 Resuhative Adverbs in Generative Grammar 2.2 Resultatives in Mandarin Chinese 2.2.1 Literature on Compounding Resultatives 2.2.2 Literature on DE-resuhatives 2.2.3 Adverb Resultatives in Mandarin 2.3 Typologies of Chinese Resultatives 2.4 Summary Chapter 3 Typical Resultatives in Chinese 3.1 A Quick Summary of the Model 3.1.1 v-splitting Hypothesis 3.1.2 Head Movement Constraint with Reconciliation 3.1.3 Landing Site of a Raised Object 3.2 v-splitting in DE-resultatives 3.2.1 v-splitting Derivation in DE-resultatives 3.2.2 Specificity in DE-resultatives 3.2.3 Comparison with Other Approaches 3.2.4 Summary of DE-resuhatives 3.3 v-splitting in Compounding Resultatives 3.3.1 v-splitting Derivation in Compounding Resultatives 3.3.2 Specificity in Compounding Resultatives 3.3.3 Comparison with Other Approaches 3.3.4 Parametric Variation on Direct Object Restriction 3.4 Summary Chapter 4 Adverb Resultatives in Chinese 4.1 Asymmetric Analyses for Manner and Resultative Adverbs., 4.1.1 Manner Adverbs as Modification 4.1.2 Resuhative Adverbs as Predication 4.2 Labeling Analysis of Adverb Resultatives 4.2.1 v-splitting in Chinese Adverb Resultatives 4.2.2 Specificity in Adverb Resultatives 4.2.3 Intervention Effect in Adverb Resultatives 4.2.4 Contrast to English Adverb Resuhatives 4.3 Summary Chapter 5 Cross-linguistic Study on Resultative Patterns 5.1 Serial Verb Resultatives in Shanghai Dialect 5.1.1 Distinctions in Syntactic Behaviors 5.1.2 Labeling Derivation 5.1.3 Explanation on Syntactic Distinctions 5.1.4 Feature-inheritance Exuberance 5.2 Resultatives in English 5.2.1 Canonical Resultatives 5.2.2 Adverb Resuhatives 5.2.3 Pseudo-resultatives in English 5.3 Resultatives in Innu-aimun 5.3.1 Labeling Derivation 5.3.2 Strategies of Symmetry-breaking 5.4 Summary Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks 6.1 Conclusion and Implication 6.2 Future Research References