What kind of verbs can the suffix たて （立て） attach to?


Why can -たて attach to some verbs and not others? What is a more precise
definition of how to use it?

I had been aware of the suffix -たて as meaning 'an action just/newly
completed/occurred' for a while but I covered it in my textbook more formally
today. It attaches in the form of 連用形+たて. For example,  
焼きたて = freshly baked  
とりたて = freshly picked  
ペンキ塗りたて = newly painted

However, my book also stated that you can't say the following.  
読みたて  
寝たて  
食べたて

If the definition above was correct, I should be able to use it for those
words. That definition is also supported by the dictionaries I've looked it up
in:  
[Yahoo!
Jisho](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E7%AB%8B%E3%81%A6&dtype=0&dname=0na&stype=0&pagenum=1&index=11531200)
"動詞の連用形に付いて、その動作が終わったばかりであることを表す"  
[Jisho.org](http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A6&eng=&dict=edict)
"indicates activity only just occurred; just (done)"




This is only my own gut feeling, but I'm fairly certain the distinction
involves whether or not the verb produces an object (not grammatical object!)
in a time-dependent state. 焼きたて, for example, refers to baked goods that are
fresh out of the oven and thus still quite warm - they haven't cooled yet.
ペンキ塗りたて refers to something that's been very recently painted and probably
still wet - it hasn't dried yet. とりたて refers to fruit (and such things) that
has recently been picked and is thus still very fresh - it hasn't had any of
the decomposition processes associated with being removed from its tree begin
in earnest yet.

The impossible phrases don't produce objects in clear time-dependent states.
For *読みたて, while there is a state of 'recently having read a book and thus
remembering its contents well', this applies to the reader, not the book
itself. *寝たて doesn't even have any objects associated with it closely enough.
For *食べたて, like *読みたて, the state of 'having recently eaten and now being full
/ no longer hungry' applies to the eater, not the food; and the food's state
of having been eaten is not in any way time-dependent.

-たて may also require that the item being referred to would be the verb's grammatical object (ruling *寝たて out), but I'm not sure. I can't think of any counterexamples, but there might be some.

