Re: painting the door green

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Eldin Raigmore
<eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:49:16 +0200, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
> wrote:
>
>>Den 24. aug. 2008 kl. 18.24 skreiv René Uittenbogaard:
>>
>>> I'm looking for the English grammatical term for what is known in
>>> Dutch as the "bepaling van gesteldheid"
>>> It is a constituent which is, among others, found in sentences like:
>>>
>>> He is painting the door *green*.
> That Wikipedia article has:
>
> "We painted the door white." (adjectival predicative of the object)
>
> given as an example.
>
> So clearly Wikipedia thinks that's what it is; an adjectival predicative of the
> object.  But that doesn't mean that's the only, or even the best, term to use.
The same term in used in Volapük grammar for the case that's used
in contexts like that: predicative case. (It wasn't part of Schleyer's
original Volapük IIRC, but was introduced in ~1931 by Arie de Jong.)

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