FeforIndexAccess

During the FeforGrammarians discussion on immediate challenges to developing our grammars (FeforImmediateChallenges) we indentified a set of phenomena which seem to require access to indices other than the XARG belonging to saturated arugments. These include:

• Floated quantifiers (including floating numeral classifier phrases in CJK)
• Various languages of the Americas in which verbal arguments seem to be saturated by proniminal affixes, where independent NPs appear to be modifiers further specifying those arguments.
• Secondary predicates in English ("Kim hired Sandy drunk") and Norweigan (eg?). In both cases there is evidence that the secondary predicate attaches to VP (not the object NP). In English, the string is ambiguous, with "drunk" being predicated of either Kim or Sandy (? but not both). In Norwegian, the morphology on the secondary predicate disambiguates and can in fact force the low (semantic) attachment.