Johnson 2004 - CDLI - UCLA

followed by resultative seems to be invariant, which is quite surprising given the inverse
ordering of constituents in SOV languages under Kaynean antisymmetry.
(65) Japanese -te shimau construction (Kaiser et al. 2001, 518)
nantoka shinai to go¢suto taun-ni nat-te shima-u
something do-Neg Comp ghost town-Loc become-Inf end.up-Indic
Unless we do something, it’ll end up becoming a ghost town.
(66) Korean poryo-ta construction
ceolsoo-ga ne ca-rul pa-ra boryot-ta
PN-Sub 1Poss car-Acc sold-Inf end.up-Indic
Chelsu ended up selling my car (negative meaning)
The only way that I know of to identify the particular morphological element that
introduces telicity would be to identify an adjectival root that has undergone two
derivational phases: the first involving the shift from state (adjective) to derived
achievement and the second from achievement to derived accomplishment. If one
assumes, as I will for the sake of the argument, that each of these two derivations can be
tied to some kind of morphological element or syntactic configuration, the derived
achievement and the derived accomplishment should share at least one morphosyntactic
feature that is not found in the simple adjective, while the accomplishment should bear at
least one morphosyntactic feature that neither the state (adjective), nor the achievement
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