[matrix] MODIFIED.PERIPH

[Emily M. Bender]

The only thing I have is this comment in matrix.tdl:

; Three-valued sort for distinguishing unmodified signs from both
; left-modified and right-modified signs PERIPH indicates whether this
; modifier is left- or right-peripheral in its phrase - e.g., "the IBM
; temporary employees" but "*the IBM five employees"

It looks like something that the matrix carried over only in part
from the ERG.

I make use of PERIPH in the Wambaya grammar, though not
necessarily in the way it's used in the ERG:

;;; ERB 2007-12-29 I'd like to keep vocatives off of right conjuncts.  So
;;; I'm adding a new feature that adj-head phrases will get from their
;;; adj daughter, and which the bottom-coord rule for s coordination will
;;; look for.  Actually, I might be able to reuse PERIPH for this purpose.
;;; and indeed, adj-head-int-phrase already identifies the PERIPH value
;;; of the mother with the PERIPH value of the non-head daughter.  So
;;; it should suffice to give vocatives [ PERIPH + ] and have the
;;; s-coord rule look for [ PERIPH - ].

Making this work also required propagating the PERIPH value in a bunch
of phrases.

Emily

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Francis Bond <fcbond at gmail.com> wrote:
> G'day,
>
> can anyone point me to some documentation or literature regarding
> MODIFIED.PERIPH?
>
> --
> Francis Bond <http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/>
> NICT Language Infrastructure Group
>