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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Can you help me with the name of this construction: The wall cracked open?
  

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Anonymous Can you help me with the name of this construction: The wall cracked open? It's a resultative construction . The result of the cracking of the wall is that it became open.

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  • Anonymous Can you help me with the name of this construction: The wall cracked open?
  • It's a resultative construction .
  • The result of the cracking of the wall is that it became open.
  • The primary predication is "The wall cracked".
  • The secondary predication is "The wall was (then) open".
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AnonymousCan you help me with the name of this construction: The wall cracked open?
It's a resultative construction. The result of the cracking of the wall is that it became open.

The primary predication is "The wall cracked".
The secondary predication is "The wall was (then) open".

So "open" is a subject-oriented (resultative) se
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