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Meaning of "resultative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF RESULTATIVE

rɪˈzʌltətɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RESULTATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Resultative is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RESULTATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Resultative

In linguistics, a resultative is a form that expresses that something or someone has undergone a change in state as the result of the completion of an event. Resultatives appear as predicates of sentences, and are generally composed of a verb a postverbal noun phrase and a so-called resultative phrase which may be represented by an adjective, a prepositional phrase, or a particle, among others. For example, in the English sentence The man wiped the table clean, the adjective clean denotes the state achieved by the table as a result of the event described as the man wiped.

Definition of resultative in the English dictionary

The definition of resultative in the dictionary is a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RESULTATIVE

argumentative · augmentative · auscultative · authoritative · commutative · consultative · exploitative · facultative · fermentative · interpretative · meditative · preventative · putative · qualitative · quantitative · rehabilitative · representative · rotative · tentative · vegetative

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RESULTATIVE

resubject · resubmission · resubmit · resubmitted · resubmitting · result · resultant · resultant tone · resultantly · resultful · resultless · resultlessness · results · resumable · resume · resumer · resummon · resumption · resumptive · resumptively

WORDS THAT END LIKE RESULTATIVE

active · administrative · alternative · collaborative · comparative · conservative · cooperative · creative · cumulative · decorative · derivative · in the negative · informative · initiative · innovative · legislative · narrative · native · negative · operative · relative

Synonyms and antonyms of resultative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «resultative» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF RESULTATIVE

Find out the translation of resultative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of resultative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «resultative» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

动结
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

resultativa
570 millions of speakers
en

English

resultative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

resultative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

resultative
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

результативная
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

resultativo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

resultative
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

résultatif
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Hasilnya
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Resulate
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

结果性
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

resultative
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Asil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

resultative
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

resultative
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

परिणामी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

resultative
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

risultativo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

resultative
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

результативна
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

rezultativă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

resultative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

resultative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

resultativa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

resultative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of resultative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RESULTATIVE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of resultative
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about resultative

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RESULTATIVE»

Discover the use of resultative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to resultative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Typology of Resultative Constructions
This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic parameters and of ...
Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, Bernard Comrie, 1988
2
A Practical Chinese Grammar
The Resultative Complements 1.1 The Chinese language employs different types of complement constructions; thus far, we have learned three: Complement of Degree (Verb Object Verb % Complement): Lesson 25 Complement of Time ( Verb ...
Hongnian Zhang, Sze-yun Liu, Lilin Shi, 1994
3
Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative ...
Complex Predicatesexamines a number of linguistic phenomena—including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations—and uses scrambling and ...
Stefan Müller, 2002
4
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and ...
(The verb-final suffix -d' is an indicator of finiteness) If, however, we take a transitive verb, then a number of changes take place relative to the non- resultative form : Umgu t'us fa -d'. (38) woman meat roast 'The woman roasted the meat.' T'us fa ...
Bernard Comrie, 1989
5
The Copy Theory of Movement
Leiden University This chapter examines the ambiguity in resultative constructions with verb copying in Mandarin Chinese (resultative de-clauses and resultative compounds) and argues that the ambiguity is the result of two different  ...
Norbert Corver, Jairo Nunes, 2007
6
Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-lexical Semantics Interface
If the resultative XP is added to a verb that is already an achievement or an accomplishment, then, once again, given the typology of basic eventuality types, it can only be interpreted as further specifying an already encoded change of state ...
Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav, 1995
7
Resultative Constructions: Cross-linguistic Variation and ...
I propose a new classification of these constructions, which focuses on the argument structure of the construction.
Naoko Tomioka, 2006
8
The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The Formation ...
DISYLLABIFICATION AND THE FUSION OF VERB AND RESULTATIVE 4.1 Introduction In Chapter 2 and 3 we have discussed the behaviors of the resultative construction in Modern Chinese and its origin in Middle Chinese (i.e. the separable ...
Yuzhi Shi, 2002
9
Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference
This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions.
Laura A. Michaelis, 2002
10
Current Studies in Spanish Linguistics
3 Rothstein (1983: 150) notes that 'resultative predicates are permitted only with verbs which describe a change of state occurring to the patient argument. The predicate describes the state which the verb causes, and predicates this of the ...
Héctor Campos, Fernando Martínez-Gil, 1992

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RESULTATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term resultative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
What we talk about when we talk about (word) copulation
Some people have some strange, wrong ideas, and it's all because their high school teachers didn't tell them about copulation. Or resultatives or substantives. «The Week Magazine, Apr 15»
2
Publication of Issue 33/34 of the international journal “Languages …
Verbs lexicalizing a simple structure (without a resultative layer) give rise to the formation of masdars expressing (among others) unrelated events and do not ... «Morocco World News, Aug 14»
3
Crimea 'chill' in Russian-Western relations will be short-lived …
This is already resultative.” Churkin slammed the West's “routine practice” of exerting pressure while addressing some countries ahead of voting at the United ... «RT, Apr 14»
4
US, Russia contacted Syria directly to get chemical weapons data …
... Lavrov said in an interview with "Saturday News" program on Rossiya 1 TV channel following his resultative meeting with US Secretary John Kerry in Geneva. «RT, Sep 13»
5
Remarks by President Obama and the Presidents of Estonia …
... challenge and opportunity for all of us -- for United States and Europe -- to move fast these kinds of relations and to have very efficient and resultative outcome. «Whitehouse.gov, Aug 13»
6
Utopian for Beginners
... after several moments of contemplation, he decided that gawking required the use of the “resultative format” to suggest “an event which occurs in conjunction ... «The New Yorker, Dec 12»
7
Independence Day messages
'Independence is not a resultative until all citizens of Sri Lanka think together without selfishness whatever being the disputes. Administrative rules of the ... «Ceylon Daily News, Feb 12»
8
Medien: Die Gunst des Fragens
Die können zurück in ihre Vorträge, in ihre Bücher, Anne Will aber nicht, weshalb sie nun darlegt, inwiefern man das „resultative Paket“ bejahen und trotzdem ... «Tagesspiegel, Oct 11»
REFERENCE
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