a strategy used in the stative complex predicate construction in which the manner (more generally, stative) component is expressed like an adjective ( property - modifier) in an argument phrase that indexes an argument of the event - predicate in the complex predicate construction. Example: in Latin mendicus a me tristis stipem petivit 'The beggar asked me sadly for a gift', the form tristis 'sadly' indexes the subject mendicus 'beggar' in case, number and gender/class. (Section 14.2)