(By Hannah J. Haynie): "This feature describes an adnominal property word denoting core adjectival concepts such as shape, value, dimension, age, color (at a minimum -- many other meanings are possible) which can be separated from the noun it modifies by some element that is not part of the nominal phrase. For example, can you say the man is running big to mean ‘the big man is running’? ❡
Typically a language which allows this has extensive agreement systems so that you can still work out what modifies what in the NP without them being adjacent (e.g. the ‘Australian type’). NPs that are made up of several coordinated NPs that can be interpreted by the verb or other elements are not relevant here. This features aims specifically to capture the phenomenon of a single NP whose property words can occur outside of and not immediately adjacent to the portion of the NP that contains the head. Examples of the type I painted the house red or I saw the boy big are not necessarily discontinuous, but most likely resultative or contrastive (I saw the boy big [as opposed to before when he was small]). These should be disregarded for the purposes of this feature."
Note that for the purposes of this feature only property words (e.g. tall, red, friendly) should be considered. Any other elements described as 'adjectives' or 'adjectival' in the grammatical description (e.g. quantifiers, demonstratives) should be disregarded in coding this feature."