Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22210/suvlin.2021.092.05
Resultative construction with predicate instrumental case in Croatian
Davor Krsnik
orcid.org/0000-0001-7458-2507
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The paper describes the construction in which resultative secondary predicates are marked with
instrumental case. Three hypotheses are being evaluated. The first hypothesis states that the resultative instrumental case is a semantic category of the predicate instrumental that is syntactically divided into
complement and adjunct types. It is shown that complex predicates derived from lexical causatives and
their resultative predicate complements function as triggers of analogical mapping of the resultative
construction on lexically full verbs, thereby creating examples of adjunct resultatives marked by the
predicate instrumental. The second hypothesis explains that resultative secondary predication in Croatian is aspectually neutral. This hypothesis confronts the viewpoint that grammaticalized aspect suppresses
resultativity on a syntactical level. The third hypothesis explains that at least two features derive from
the aspectual neutrality of resultatives in Croatian that make this variant of resultative construction
typologically distinctive – prominent gradeability of adjectives that take on the resultative function and
the incrementality of the change of state process undergone by the patient. These three hypotheses are
tested by collostructional analysis and by a model of integration of verbs with constructions proposed by
Goldberg (1995).
Keywords
resultative secondary predicate; collostructional analysis; strong and weak resultatives; predicate instrumental; resultative construction; Croatian
Hrčak ID:
269771
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2021.
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