Depictive construction

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)

Synonyms

 * Depictive
 * Depictive predication
 * Depictive secondary predication
 * Praedicativum
 * Predicative attribute
 * Copredicate
 * Copredicative

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.