ACD in AP ?

Interestingly, (2) is ambiguous. It shows a reading parallel to (1), where Mary interviewed everyone who was a possible candidate (2a). But it also shows a second, unexpected reading on which possible does not seem to modify candidate directly, but rather indirectly through an implicit relative clause (2b). On this second reading, Mary doesn’t interview potential candidates, but rather actual candidates that it was possible for her to interview. I’ll call the first reading the "direct modification reading", and I’ll call the 2nd reading the "implicit relative reading" (IRR).