[developers] INDEX on scopal modifiers

[Emily M. Bender]

Thanks, Ann.  It wasn't the coindexation of the scopal mod's INDEX with the
head's INDEX I was worried about, but rather the why, which you answered.
I was thinking in terms of modifiers/arguments and hadn't gotten to
composite tens/aspect marking.

(The reason the ERG doesn't identify ARG0s there is because the scopal mods
carefully don't identify their own INDEX & ARG0.)

Thanks,
Emily

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Ann Copestake <aac10 at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Emily,
>
> I suspect I'm totally misunderstanding, but ...
>
> The answer to why do we ever care about the index would be because there
> could be later attachment of non-scopal modifiers, or auxiliaries affecting
> tense etc.
>
> The dog had probably slept.
> But I guess you're asking about the coindexation of the scopal modifier's
> index with the head's index - and it seems that doesn't happen in the ERG
> at least for that example.  At least, I've just checked using the demo, and
> the ARG0 of `probably' is not coindexed with the ARG0 of `slept'.
>
> All best,
>
> Ann
>
>
> On 22/12/2017 18:06, Emily M. Bender wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I suspect I've asked questions similar to this one before, but the answer
> has not stayed with me, so please forgive the repeat.
>
> In the Grammar Matrix, like the ERG, we are careful to pass up the INDEX
> of the head daughter in scopal head-mod structures (more precisely, the
> HOOK comes from the non-head daughter, so the scopal modifiers themselves
> identify their INDEX with their MOD's INDEX.
>
> My question is: Why?  What else in the grammar(s) ever wants the index of
> the head inside that scopal-head-adj structure?
>
> Thanks,
> Emily
>
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