Re: Question for English Speakers about Secondary Predicates (also posted on ZBB)

> Note that in both cases, "raw", due to its displacement from its
> expected position in the sentence, becomes the point of emphasis or
> focus of the sentence.
>
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

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