The hunted 95 per cent?

Let’s start with: (1) Hunted for its horns, 95 percent of the population disappeared This looks like a classic “dangling modifier”. We have a SPAR hunted for its horns (a Subjectless Predicative Adjunct Requiring a referent for the missing subject), but the adjunct doesn’t obey the Subject Rule (doesn’t pick up its referent from the subject … Continue reading The hunted 95 per cent?