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

Josh Roth wrote:
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from (C) to (D) the same change in syntax doesn't tell us anthing new
(the listener could not have been aware of the raw status in either
case, because he didn¹t even know about the onion to begin with!), so
what's the point in changing the syntax? It seems redundant and thus
perhaps not *ungrammatical*, but strange - an unjustified complication.
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I should have waited a few more minutes before replying! These are
exactly my feelings, made much clearer than I managed.

Jonathan.
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