At the same time, in either in English or Japanese, it seems undeniable that even resultative phrases expressing a predictable result are not totally productive.
collocations of particular verbs and resultative phrases are to some extent conventionalized, or idiomatic, and expressions of imaginable results are not always acceptable: for example, *hutatu-ni kowasi-ta 'broke into two pieces' is not acceptable while konagona-ni kowasi-ta 'broke into pieces' in (1) and mapputatu-ni kowasi-ta 'broke into exact halves' are.