[developers] Transfer rule question

[Emily M. Bender]

I see -- thanks!  I'll give this a try, assuming I get through enough
of the other MMT set up...

Emily

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> > I think you need +copy+ for that.
>
> but i believe that would not go together well with transfer
> meta-variables in the output (e.g. the [ LBL #lbl ] in the variant
> sketched by emily).  true, with +copy+ these would no longer be
> needed, but i doubt the output overwriting of ARG1 would work as in
> that rule.  but do you actually need that role to be typed ‘x’,
> though?  if not, the following might just work:
>
>   [...] OUTPUT [ RELS <! + copy+ & [ ARG1 [ DITCH + ] ] !> ].
>
> transfer meta-variables on PRED, CARG, and variable properties are
> severely limited, often in not very transparent ways, i am afraid!
>
> best, oe
>
>


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