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"To wipe the table clean" : A well-known example for a resultative verb.

However, I'm looking through many AktionsartAktionsart right now, and I just cannot figure out what happens in "I will eat you alive" or "He ate the chicken raw". I guess we can elongate it to "I will eat you {while you are} alive", but, well, there has to be a name for this usage of putting an adjective that describes the state the person something is done to to the moment the action takes place? Please

Please help me out, just one term is enough, or one link, you don't have to bring lots of effort.

"To wipe the table clean" : A well-known example for a resultative verb.

However, I'm looking through many Aktionsart right now, and I just cannot figure out what happens in "I will eat you alive" or "He ate the chicken raw". I guess we can elongate it to "I will eat you {while you are} alive", but, well, there has to be a name for this usage of putting an adjective that describes the state the person something is done to to the moment the action takes place? Please help me out, just one term is enough, or one link, you don't have to bring lots of effort.

"To wipe the table clean" : A well-known example for a resultative verb.

However, I'm looking through many Aktionsart right now, and I just cannot figure out what happens in "I will eat you alive" or "He ate the chicken raw". I guess we can elongate it to "I will eat you {while you are} alive", but, well, there has to be a name for this usage of putting an adjective that describes the state the person something is done to to the moment the action takes place?

Please help me out, just one term is enough, or one link, you don't have to bring lots of effort.

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"To wipe the table clean" : A well-known example for a resultative verb.

However, I'm looking through many Aktionsart right now, and I just cannot figure out what happens in "I will eat you alive" or "He ate the chicken raw". I guess we can elongate it to "I will eat you {while you are} alive", but, well, there has to be a name for this usage of putting an adjective that describes the state the person something is done to to the moment the action takes place? Please help me out, just one term is enough, or one link, you don't have to bring lots of effort.

"To wipe the table clean" : A well-known example for a resultative verb.

However, I'm looking through many Aktionsart right now, and I just cannot figure out what happens in "I will eat you alive". I guess we can elongate it to "I will eat you {while you are} alive", but, well, there has to be a name for this usage of putting an adjective that describes the state the person something is done to to the moment the action takes place? Please help me out, just one term is enough, or one link, you don't have to bring lots of effort.

"To wipe the table clean" : A well-known example for a resultative verb.

However, I'm looking through many Aktionsart right now, and I just cannot figure out what happens in "I will eat you alive" or "He ate the chicken raw". I guess we can elongate it to "I will eat you {while you are} alive", but, well, there has to be a name for this usage of putting an adjective that describes the state the person something is done to to the moment the action takes place? Please help me out, just one term is enough, or one link, you don't have to bring lots of effort.

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"I will eat you alive!": What is this construction?

"To wipe the table clean" : A well-known example for a resultative verb.

However, I'm looking through many Aktionsart right now, and I just cannot figure out what happens in "I will eat you alive". I guess we can elongate it to "I will eat you {while you are} alive", but, well, there has to be a name for this usage of putting an adjective that describes the state the person something is done to to the moment the action takes place? Please help me out, just one term is enough, or one link, you don't have to bring lots of effort.