Source-Marking Resultatives in Estonian
Mati Erelt · Linguistica Uralica · 2005
Estonian has two types of resultative clauses - goal-marking (GM) and source-marking (SM) resultative clauses. Both can be either intransitive or transitive. A GM-clause reveals the presence of the referent of the subject or the object before the beginning of the change, which is not the case for an SM-clause. The same verbs are used in both constructions, which allows treating the opposition in these constructions as a diathetic one.