VERBFINAL {MoLE} | R Documentation |
Put verb final
Description
Reorganizes constituents of an utterance such that verb is put in sentence-final position. Only applies if corresponding word-order generalization has been made.
Usage
VERBFINAL(proposition)
Arguments
proposition |
Proposition of which the constituents are reordered. |
Value
a proposition, i.e. a list:
external |
representation of the external argument |
internal |
representation of the internal argument, if identified |
verb |
representation of the action argument |
target |
target event to be described |
Author(s)
Sander Lestrade
References
Matthew S. Dryer. 2013. Order of Subject, Object and Verb. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info/chapter/81, Accessed on 2017-05-24.)
See Also
GENERALIZE
Examples
FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
(proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation))
VERBFINAL(proposition)
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