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- adjective linguistics Indicating the state of a
noun resulting from thecompletion of the action expressed by averb , as with "blue" in "Mary painted the fence blue".
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Examples
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My own tentative theory about this suffix is that it's adjectival in origin, based on the "adjectival genitive" and resultative nouns formed with *-t which later become the ubiquitous s-stems.
The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model 2009
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If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Thus a natural rift would grow over time between the inflection of resultative verbs and of stative verbs within the originally united category of completive aspect.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Does this mean that the simple CoC- construct remained the preferred resultative-stative form until after PIE?
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If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set.
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Does this mean that the simple CoC- construct remained the preferred resultative-stative form until after PIE?
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Thus a natural rift would grow over time between the inflection of resultative verbs and of stative verbs within the originally united category of completive aspect.
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To put on a coat is momentaneous, to wear a coat is resultative.
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And there are result verbs or resultative particles in Huon Gulf languages whose semantics resemble those of the verbs occurring with classificatory prefixes in the verb-final languages elsewhere on the northeast coast of New Guinea.
Far Outliers 2009
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In some of the Morobe languages, which apparently never made the full shift to OV basic word order, the SVOV serial causative produced an SVOR phrasal causative when the final verbs in the construction lost their verbal status and became resultative particles.
Far Outliers 2009
qroqqa commented on the word resultative
denoting a result: as in the adjectives in 'Mary painted the room blue', 'John hammered the metal flat'. As opposed to depictive ('John wandered the streets naked').
July 29, 2008