Copredicate

Copredicate is an older term that was sometimes used for secondary predicate (an example is black/green in She drinks her coffee black (depictive copredicate), She painted the door green (resultative copredicate).

Comments

The term copredicate is particularly used in Russian linguistics following Mel'čuk (1974:229), and sometimes in German linguistics (e.g. Plank 1985, Müller-Bardey 1988, Haspelmath 1993)

Synonyms

• secondary predicate
• predicative attribute
• predicative adjunct

References

• Mel'čuk, Igor A. 1974. Opyt teorii lingvističeskix modelej "Smsyl-Tekst". Moskva: Nauka
• Plank, Frans. 1985. “Prädikativ und Koprädikativ.” Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik 13.2:154-185.
• Haspelmath, Martin. 1993. A grammar of Lezgian. Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter.