<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>(The reason the ERG doesn't identify ARG0s there is because the scopal mods carefully don't identify their own INDEX & ARG0.)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Emily</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Ann Copestake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aac10@cl.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">aac10@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Emily,</p>
<p>I suspect I'm totally misunderstanding, but ... <br>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>The dog had probably slept.<br>
</p>
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'. <br>
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All best,<br>
<br>
Ann<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div class="m_-2932309189232589833moz-cite-prefix">On 22/12/2017 18:06, Emily M. Bender
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all,
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<div>I suspect I've asked questions similar to this one before,
but the answer has not stayed with me, so please forgive the
repeat.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>My question is: Why? What else in the grammar(s) ever
wants the index of the head inside that scopal-head-adj
structure? </div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Emily</div>
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