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This paper investigates the composition patterns of the event structures of the complex verb constructions, V1-e V2{nohta/twuta}, based on Pustejovsky’s(1995) Generative Lexicon, and the meanings of V2{nohta/twuta} in the constructions. The V1-e V2{nohta/twuta} constructions fall largely into five groups depending on whether the ‘ey’-marked Goal argument is introduced by V2, which is affected by whether the two verbs share the [+concrete, +mobility] object(Theme) argument: (i) ‘yele-nohta/twuta’ and ‘iphye-nohta/twuta’ are the typical auxiliary verb constructions in which V1 and V2 share only the subject, and the ‘ey’-marked Goal argument cannot be introduced by V2. In these constructions, ‘-e V2{nohta/twuta}’ means the ‘continuation of the resultative state’; (ii) the other three groups, i.e. ‘kele-nohta/twuta’, ‘kkenay-nohta/twuta’, and ‘mantule-nohta/twuta’ are the constructions in which V1 and V2 share not only the subject but the [+concrete, +mobility] object(Theme) argument as well, and ‘ey’-marked Goal argument is syntactically selected by V2. In such cases, V2{nohta/twuta} can be construed as having the aspectual or the lexical meaning, a ‘change of location’, according to the context.