ARG-ST as a head feature

[Carl Pollard]

Hi Berthold,

>
has anyone so far suggested to have ARG-ST as a head feature?
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Mike Calcagno and I made this assumption in our work on French
causatives, and it seems to me that it is also needed to get
Abeille and Godard's analysis of French tense auxiliaries to work.

>
Not that I really want to adopt this
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Why not? The locality argument against doing this is not very
persuasive, since the existing feature geometries already allow
selection for things that are never selected for (e.g. parts of
CONTENT such as QUANTS, having a certain MOD value, etc.).

Regards,

Carl