Abstrakt
In English, the placement of bare adjectives (a black swan x *a swan black) after the NP head is highly restricted (the presence of the superlative, temporary attribute). Past participles, on the other hand, are restricted in the pre-head position, although these restrictions have not been scrutinized in detail.
The most productive morphological types in the posthead position are -ible /-able adjectives (available, payable, applicable, or detectable), (un-)-ed adjectives (interested, appalled, unaddressed) and past participles of certain transitive verbs (used, required, given). It is, however, difficult to survey these constructions quantitatively, as the status of -ed forms is dubious (adjectives, verb forms, etc.), which complicates in the retrieval of these forms from the corpus (incosistent tagging).
Comparison of bare -ble and -ed post-head forms shows that they share a phoric function and appear in constructions that are either explicitly or implicitly quantitative.