>I'm looking for the English grammatical term for what is known in
>Dutch as the "bepaling van gesteldheid"
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http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bepaling_van_gesteldheid>
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http://tinyurl.com/6eaf8p
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>It is a constituent which is, among others, found in sentences like:
>
>He is painting the door *green*.
>She bought the store *empty*.
>They applauded *the skin off their hands*.
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>The term is used for somewhat different usages as well, but I'm
>looking for the English term for this particular usage. I haven't been
>able to find the term on the English wikipedia. Anyone?
I don't know what precedent there is for this in the linguistic literature,
but I call this the resultative construction. Mark Rosenfelder does the
same, as in