A secondary predicate is a (mostly adjectival)
predicative expression that conveys information about the subject or the object but is not the main
predicate
Predicate or predication may refer to:
* Predicate (grammar), in linguistics
* Predication (philosophy)
* several closely related uses in mathematics and formal logic:
**Predicate (mathematical logic)
**Propositional function
**Finitary relation, o ...
of the clause. This structure may be analysed in many different ways.
These may be resultative, as in (1) and (2) or descriptive (also called "depictive") as in (3).
:(1) She painted the town red
:(2) The film left me cold
:(3) Susan walked around naked. (Depictive over the subject, or "subject-oriented depictive")
:(4) John ate the meat raw. (Depictive over the object, or "object-oriented depictive")
:(5) All men are created equal.
Alternative views
Optional depictive secondary predicates are viewed as "predicative
adjuncts" by some linguists. (Huddleston & Pullum 2002)
References
* Monica-Alexandrina Irimia (2005) "Types of secondary predication". ''Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics'' 25: 20–29
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*Huddleston, R. and G. K. Pullum (2002). ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN, 0-521-43146-8
External links
Secondary Predication and Non-Verbal Predicates
Grammar