Goldberg & Jackendoff(2004: 532-568)offered a comprehensive and descriptively adequate account of the English resultative as a family of constructions,in which exist many subconstructions that are linked with each other in terms of Family Resemblance."The family" is bound to be an open-ended system into which many subconstructions can be integrated.The subconstructions are also determined to be surface representations.Wittgenstein’s Family Resemblance Theory is used to further analyze Goldbe...