resultativeadj.n.

1645 T. Urquhart Trissotetras 50 The first two termes of the Resultative Analogie.

1675 W. Collins Missa Triumphans i. 32 Signification..hath no exhibitive, but only resultative power.

1859 J. Epps Consumption iii. 47 This change in the bowels being resultative of the mucous membrane being deprived of its usual healthy supply of blood.

1958 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 36 159 Discrimination, acceptance, causation and resultative factors are significant.

1998 G. Smith Family Values & New Society v. 111 The law assumes its rightful posture as a predictive, rather than a resultative vector of force in a scheme of modern living.

1857 J. G. Sheppard & L. Evans Notes upon Thucydides ii. lxxxvii. 251 The object-accusative, and..the resultative accusative.

1926 H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. II. ii. lviii. 545 The attributive past participle mostly has a momentaneous or resultative aspect.

1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) i. iv. 61 English shares with other languages the use of the resultative perfect, which denotes a past action connected, through its result, with the present moment. I've bought a new car.

1970 J. W. R. Lindemann Old Eng. Preverbal Ge- i. 4 Ge- may convert an intransitive verb into a resultative verb that is transitive.

2003 Lang. in Society 32 416 Consider the resultative construction, exemplified by such sentences as Wilma watered the tulips flat.

1902 Englische Studien 31 354 It will be observed that the resultative points out the result which it is the agent's purpose to attain.

1965 Language 41 109 In Indic, the perfect, whose function was originally stative,..developed..to a resultative.

2001 Language 77 771 There are indeed some subject-oriented transitive-based resultatives.