The thesis is a study of the English resultative construction from the aspect of conceptual event structure with the cognitive linguistic approach, which is known to be the one that is based on our experience of the world and the way we perceive and conceptualize it, in the hope to find the motivations behind the generation and understanding of the resultatives.

However, the expression of conditional concept is not confined to the one-to-one relationship in form and function mapping, but characterized by various syntactic constructions in light of the linguistic legal context.