[developers] INDEX on scopal modifiers

[Emily M. Bender]

I'm pretty sure Dan has arguments to support treating those as extraction
of the adjunct.


On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Ann Copestake <aac10 at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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> 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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