The issue here as I see it is predicate level: there is a stage-level interpretation and an individual-level interpretation. The individual-level interpretation is that the adjective applies to the modified noun intrinsically, that is, "the responsible people" at the individual-level refers to people who are generally responsible. On the other hand, the stage-level interpretation has a more holistic sense of the situation, with a focus on the now: the stage-level interpretation of the aforementioned statement, usually written as "the people responsible", using a postpositive adjective, is generally interpreted as something like "the people responsible for the situation at hand". Provided that allowable is acceptable as a postpositive adjective, it seems reasonable to cast the prepositive adjective statement as taking on the individual-level meaning, which would agree with the interpretation of Quazie exceeding the Income Cap.
天火狐 On 28 April 2017 at 19:47, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 28 Apr 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > If anyone can think of historical CFJs on the interpretation of > “allowable” or a related term, I’m all ears. > > I got nothing. > > Dictionary seems to suggest either works. > > I think it's straight up "best interests of the game" territory here. > > > >
