Croatica et Slavica Iadertina, Zadar, 2008 UDK 811.163.42'367.633 81'362 Izvorni znanstveni članak Primljen: 26. 1. 2008. Prihvaćen za tisak: 19. 9. 2008. Ljiljana Šarić Institutt for litteratur, områdestudier og europeiske språk (ILOS) Universitetet i Oslo Pb. 1003, NO-0315 Oslo Ljiljana.Saric@ilos.uio.no Some remarks on resultative constructions in Croatian This paper discusses resultatives, often considered a subgroup of secondary predicates. Resultatives with an adjectival form (i. e., resultatives that can be considered a special form of secondary predicates) occur only rarely in Croatian. This paper highlights the formal and semantic characteristics of these constructions, as well as other possibilities of expressing resultative meaning. Key words: resultatives, secondary predicates, depictives, adverbials, adverbial resultatives, resultative meaning of prefixes Typical resultative constructions can be exemplified with the following English sentence: (1) He hammered the metal flat. Resultatives are often discussed in the literature on secondary predication, in which they are semantically seen as opposed to depictives. Before turning to the discussion of resultatives, a few remarks on depictives and secondary predication are necessary. Following Schultze-Berndt and Himmelmann (2004), the term depictive secondary predicate 1 refers to constructions containing two predicative 1 The terms used for secondary predicates in Croatian linguistics are "predicate complement/supplement" (priročni / predikatni dodatak, predikatna dopuna) and "predicate attribute" (predikatni atribut) referring to adjectives. Among other terms used are "adjunct" (privezak / adjunkcija), "temporary attribute", "additional predicate" and "appositive adjective" (privremeni atribut, dopunski predikat, apozitivni pridjev, pridjev u apozitivnoj službi). The variety of the terms used illustrates uncertainties connected with the formal and semantic status of the secondary predicate within a sentence. Not many studies are dedicated to this topic apart from short descriptions in grammar handbooks. Among existing grammatical descriptions, more in-depth remarks with numerous literature examples can be found only in Katičić (1986). The only book-length study of this particular topic is Peti's monograph Predikatni proširak (1979). In the author's terminology, "predicate extension" as a syntactic category involves the phenomenon usually termed "secondary predicates" in contemporary linguistic literature, as well as obligatory predicate complements. Peti analyzes secondary predicates in the broader sense; i. e., including some categories of circumstantials.