[Grammar] How does red taste?

[Jodi Sandford]

In the couple
How does red taste?
I would consider red a noun and taste the verb.
Do you agree?

1. What does green taste like? # What does red taste like? # Do different colors taste different? [2012 FIC]
2. […] where we taste select colors, feel select sounds [1991 ACAD]
3. Halfbaby’s trying hard to breathe, sees red, tastes red, her mouth gaping. [2002 FIC]
4. It was Spring, and the air outside was warm and moist and tasted green. [1995 FIC]
5. I liked showering in rainwater that tasted dark and mossy from cisterns. [2015 FIC]
   f. The kitchen forgot to salt the cooking water, so the dish tasted dull. [2011 NEWS]

In these sentences would the second member of the couple still be considered a noun or an adverb? I would think an adverb by structure but noun by usage.
Thank you.
JS

 

[Tdol]

I agree with your first question. I think 1-3 are nouns. 4-5 seem more like adjectives to me.

 

[jutfrank]

The post is very messy, so the questions are not easy to answer very easily.

 

[Raymott]

People with synaesthesia, who have one of their sensory modalities stimulated, also perceive a specific value in another sensory modality. The most common type is colour-grapheme synaesthesia, where the number 4, or the letter E always stimulates a colour, say blue. This is not psychological. It's a neurological connection between two sensory areas of the brain.

"How does red taste?" means "what is the taste sensation that occurs when the subject perceives something that is red?" I don't think it matters what grammatical term you use for the colour. 'Red' is a property or quality of matter or substance. I don't know whether it can occur simply as redness with no substrate. The ontology of colour is a common philosophical topic in the nature of perception.