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New page: '''Depictive construction''' is a type of secondary predication which predicates a property of a participant in an event. === Examples === English (Germanic, Indo-European): Malco...

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'''Depictive construction''' is a type of [[secondary predication]] which predicates a property of a participant in an event.

=== Examples ===

English (Germanic, Indo-European):

Malcolm left home '''''young'''''.

Alan walked around '''''naked'''''.

David went away '''''angry'''''.

Latin (Italic, Indo-European). (Vroom 1938:74)

{|
|-
| ''mendicus'' || ''a'' || ''me'' || '''''tristis''''' || ''stipem'' || ''petivit''
|-
| beggar.NOM.masc.sg || from || me || '''sad.NOM.masc.sg''' || gift.ACC || ask.PERF.3sg
|-
| colspan="6" | The beggar asked me sadly for a gift.
|-
|}

=== Synonyms ===
* [[Depictive]]
* [[Depictive predication]]
* [[Depictive secondary predication]]
* [[Praedicativum]]
* [[Predicative attribute]]
* [[Copredicate]]
* [[Copredicative]]

=== See also ===
* [[Resultative secondary predication]]
* [[Manner predication]]

=== Origin ===
The term ''depictive secondary predication'' was apparently first used in Halliday (1967:63), and becamse widely known through Jackendoff (1990). It contrasts with [[resultative secondary predication]] (as in ''Malcolm hammered the metal flat''). ''Depictive construction'' is used in Schultze-Berndt & Himmelmann (2004).

=== Source ===
*Loeb-Diehl, Flora. 2005. ''The Typology of Manner Expressions''. Diss. Ponsen & Looijen.

=== References ===
*Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood. 1967. ''Intonation and grammar in British English.'' The Hague: Mouton.
*Jackendoff, Ray. ''Semantic structures.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
*Schultze-Berndt, Eva & Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2004. Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective. ''Linguistic Typology 8(1)'': 59-131.
*Vroom, H. 1938. ''Latijnse Spraakkunst''. Hilversum: Brands.

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