result (adj.)

A term used in GRAMMAR and SEMANTICS to refer to a CLAUSE or ELEMENT whose MEANING expresses the notion of consequence or effect. Several features of grammar have a use which has been variously labelled resultative, resulting or resultant, such as ADVERBIALS (e.g. at last, as a result), certain types of ATTRIBUTIVE constructions (e.g. He became sad), OBJECTS where the REFERENT exists only because of the activity of the VERB (e.g. She’s writing a letter) and clauses introduced by the CONJUNCTIONS so or so that (e.g. I went so that I could see what was happening). In later CASE grammar, the term replaced FACTITIVE, used to refer to an object or being which results from an action or state.