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Re: painting the door green

From:Alex Fink <000024@...>
Date:Sunday, August 24, 2008, 18:56
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:24:54 +0200, René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...>
wrote:

>I'm looking for the English grammatical term for what is known in >Dutch as the "bepaling van gesteldheid" ><http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bepaling_van_gesteldheid> >http://tinyurl.com/6eaf8p > >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*. > >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 http://zompist.com/flaidish.htm#participle (a few screens down from there; look for "resultative"). Alex