O rezultativnoj konstrukciji s predikatnim instrumentalom u hrvatskome jeziku
Resultative construction with predicate instrumental case in Croatian

Summary/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).

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