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Notes

Sentences containing this adverb parse, with the adverb predication having the correct ARG1, but in some positions there is an unwanted ambiguity about whether the adverb attaches low or high.  When attaching from the right, it needs to be able to attach either low or high in order to cover all positions, but when attaching from the left both options are available for the same word order.

EB> Did you try what we discussed on GoPost on 5/2?

We seem to be having trouble parsing sentences with dropped subjects and auxilliaries.  We get a spanning analysis with [MC na].  We are not yet sure what to blame for this.  Sentences with dropped subjects and no auxilliaries work fine.

EB> In cases like this, include an IGT example for me to try out...

We used the first 20 sentences from the first tale, which seems to be about the adventures of some sea captains.  We attempted to perform morphological analysis, since our grammar targets the orth-seg tier; however, we are not completely confident of our analyses, since some of the lexical material is not covered by our reference grammar.

EB> Do you have translations of them, at least?

EB> No parsing IGT in argument optionality section.

Source: author
Vetted: f
Judgment: g
Phenomena: pro-d
heer gur slöpen
haa-t gur sliip-t
have-3SG good sleep-PST.PTCP
it slept well

EB> At least one reason for this not parsing is the adverb
(adjective?) gur, which the grammar only seems to recognize
as an adjective and thus can't attach to either verb.

EB> When I try parsing without the 'gur', I see the 
problem you mentioned about optional subjects and auxiliaries.
What seems to be going on is that the optional subjects
are an exception to the V2 generalization: in these examples,
the verb is actually in *first* position.  I think what
you want is a version of the opt-subj rule that looks for
a MC - daughter and gives a MC + mother. You'll need to look
into where in the grammar the constraint that this rule copies
up MC comes from and then modify appropriately...


