Questions tagged [predicate-nominative]

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Are the predicate nominals appearing with verbs like "come" and "leave" interpreted as resultatives?

I was reading some manga when I encountered a rather curious turn of phrase: Come back to us a gorgeous beauty! It suddenly dawned on me that I've seen very similar examples of NP secondary predicates in Elaine McNulty's 1988 dissertation (and other…
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