Johnson 2004 - CDLI - UCLA

accomplishment, so as secondary predicates they can refer to events that occur outside
the temporal constraints of the main predicate, but still relate to the final state of the main
predicate.
(34) a. Joan washed the car drunk.
b. Joan washed the car clean.
c. (The car was really dirty.) Joan washed the car therefore
= “Joan washed the car, because it was dirty.
The first two examples in (34) are examples of depictive (34a) and resultative (34b)
secondary predicates, whereas in (34c), the sentence-final form “therefore” corresponds
in certain aspects to the interpretation of achievement secondary predicates that I propose
above in that “therefore” occupies the same position that depictive and resultative
secondary predicates occupy (although it can of course occur elsewhere), but refers to a
prior sentence in the discourse and identifies it as the cause of the clause in which
“therefore” occurs.
I would expect that the Akkadian parallel to these kinds of secondary/adverbial
achievement predicates would be forms in either the Gt-stem or G-stem perfects, which
often occur in the apodoses of legal texts, for example, and thanks to Streck (2003, 98),
we have a good list of cases in which a Gt-stem in Akkadian parallels a reduplicated
verbal form in Sumerian, so I turn initially to Gt-stems and afterward to G-stem perfects.
Streck identifies sixteen cases of Akkadian Gt-stems that correspond to reduplicated
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