One of the verb argument constructions studied by Adele Goldberg in the development of her theory of construction grammar (2). The resultative construction is illustrated by the examples below:

1. They shouted themselves hoarse
2. He drank himself unconscious The construction has the following semantics: X causes Y to become Z, where X corresponds to the agent (subject) NP, Y to the patient (object) NP and Z to the result argument, which may be realised either by an adjective phrase (AP) like hoarse (1) or by a preposition phrase (PP). The properties associated with the resultative construction are summarised in Table 11.