| Summary: | The object of this article is to provide a thorough analysis of the little studied kiss goodbye construction (Max kissed his mother goodbye). Its great number of properties follow naturally if we integrate this construction within an articulate theory of complex-predicate formation, such as used in resultative constructions in English. However, this construction coincides structurally and semantically with a double object construction, which explains its hybrid quality. It is a resultative construction which falls into a double object frame, and hence it has properties of both types of structures and semantics. This work belongs to the Chomskian tradition, which aims at accounting for the properties of specific constructions as the results of the interactions of the various grammatical processes that produce them, which means that it should shed light on the resultative construction itself, if it is right that the kiss goodbye construction is a particular instance of the family of resultatives.
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