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In a sentence like "Mary braided her hair tight", the sentence-final predicate tight is predicated not by any overt syntactic constituent, but by the hidden final result incorporated in the meaning of the verb, i.e. the braid resulted from the action of braiding. Calling these kind of predicates pseudo-resultative predicates, Levinson (2007) argues that they are semantically predicated by the root of implicit creation verbs like braid, and that this prediction is reflected in the syntax, assuming that the pseudo-resultatives are adjectives, and so it is possible for them, in the syntax, to be predicated by the root of an implicit creation verb, which is assumed to denote an individual. However, Levinson's compositional syntactic approach to the pseudo-resultative construction cannot be maintained for two reasons; first, contrary to her expectation, so-called pseudo-resultatives are not adjectives but adverbs, and so they cannot serve as the secondary predicate predicated by the root of the verb. Second, Levinson's suggested syntactic structure is problematic in that it exploits an impossible configuration, one in which P takes a propositional complement. Considering these problems, the puzzle of finding arguments for the so-called pseudo-resultatives should be solved not by a syntactic solution, but by a pragmatic interpretation rule like the Predicate Transfer.