This document reports on a study that investigated obstacles to Japanese EFL learners' acceptability of English resultative constructions and their overacceptance of the causative "make". The study tested 28 Japanese EFL learners and 10 native English speakers on their acceptability judgements of 13 types of resultative constructions and their paraphrased expressions with "make". The results showed that for Japanese EFL learners, acceptability was higher for weak resultatives than strong resultatives, and higher for transitive than intransitive strong resultatives. Their acceptability was also higher for expressions with "make" than the corresponding resultative constructions. The hypotheses that the characteristics of the main verb and use of "make" influence acceptability