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

on 12/28/06 5:19 PM, JR at fuscian@gmail.com wrote:

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> If I understand you correctly here, my sentiments basically agree with yours.
>
> The word "some" gets in the way for me here because I keep wanting to make
> sentence (2) okay by interpreting it as a contrastive quantifier, like this:
> "the man ate SOME meat raw (... but the REST he cooked first)." So allow me to
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Of course I meant sentence (1) there.

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