[developers] INDEX on scopal modifiers

[Ann Copestake]

yes, sorry, I'd forgotten about the INDEX of the scopal modifiers in the 
ERG.

But aren't there any cases where one might want to attach a non-scopal 
modifier after a scopal one?

"On that chair, Mary Queen of Scots allegedly sat."

or something?

Ann

On 26/12/2017 15:44, Emily M. Bender wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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