| TOPICFIRST {MoLE} | R Documentation |
Put topic in first position
Description
Put topic of the utterance in first position if such a tendency was observed in and therefore generalization was made on the basis of previous utterances.
Usage
TOPICFIRST(speakerID, proposition)
Arguments
speakerID |
Pointer to speaker agent |
proposition |
Proposition in which topic argument is to be moved |
Value
a proposition, i.e. a list:
external |
representation of the external argument, possibly including role marking |
internal |
representation of the internal argument, if identified, possibly including role marking |
verb |
representation of the action argument, possibly including person indexing |
target |
target event to be described |
, in which the topic argument is put first
Author(s)
Sander Lestrade
References
Tomlin, R. S. (1986). Basic word order: Functional principles (Vol. 13). Routledge
Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2014). Why might SOV be initially preferred and then lost or recovered? a theoretical framework. In: Proceedings of the 10th international conference (evolang10), pp. 66-73.
Bates, E., & MacWhinney, B. (1987). Competition, variation, and language learning. Mechanisms of language acquisition, 157-193.
Examples
FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)
PRODUCE(1, proposition)
proposition=TOPICFIRST(1, proposition)
PRODUCE(1, proposition)