On the Implicit Meanings of English Double Predicate

This paper aims to look into the implicit meanings of the English double predicate in discourse from a cognitive-functional linguistic approach.The double structure imparts the meaning of temporariness to the predicate.When the DP clause comes into a discourse, out of this intensional meaning are derived such extensional meanings as temporary, contingent, contrastive, unusual, resultative and metonymic, which are all implicit in the clause when it stands on its own.The major meanings are implicational, which means that the resultative meaning implies both the contrastive meaning and the temporary meaning, and that the contrastive meaning implies the temporary meaning, the other three being part of the major meanings respectively in one way or another.They work together to meet the needs of the discourse with the discourse functions they can perform in the texture and structure of discourse.