Re: Question for English Speakers about Secondary Predicates (also posted on ZBB)
| From: | Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 28, 2006, 14:40 |
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Den 28. des. 2006 kl. 14.48 skrev Christopher Bates:
> I'm not sure that secondary predicates should be analysed in terms
> of movement out of an NP motivated by pragmatic factors. If
> secondary predicates were just a matter of moving adjectives that
> are in focus out of NPs, then why is this sentence ungrammatical,
> or odd to say the least?
>
> The man chased the fox brown
> = The man chased the BROWN fox
> or
> = The man chased the fox (and) it was brown
>
> Secondary predicates are often fairly strongly pragmatically
> constrained compared with adjectives in an NP... compare:
>
> the naked man cooked
> the man cooked naked
>
> the single man cooked
> ??the man cooked single
In all your examples, what you call the secondary predicate seems to
function as an adverb, the manner of the action. Even the odd
sentence "The man chased the fox brown" seems to say that the man
chased the fox so that it turned brown. Is it common amongst English
grammarians to call adverbs specifying the manner of the action
"secondary predicates"?
Makes me curious.
LEF
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