BPFK Section: Erasures
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:20:06PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > > Which is more or less equivalent to the modifiers dropping
> > > > out (along with the replaced term and the sa).
> > >
> > > I think that's the best interpretation.
> >
> > That's what *I* said that you disagreed with, wasn't it?
>
> I didn't really disagree, I just said that's not what I had in
> mind originally.
>
> In any case, I'm not sure about erasures "dropping out". I agree
> that the free modifier has to attach to SA. That doesn't mean it
> vanishes or that it has no meaning.
True, but from the point of view of the parser, at least, it must
vanish with sa itself, or it's modifying something else.
-Robin