WORDORDER {MoLE}

Use word order for interpretation

Description

Use observed word-order tendencies for interpretation of role distribution. E.g., if agents were observed to come first mostly, assign first constituent agent role.

Usage

WORDORDER(hearerID, analysis)

Arguments

hearerID

Pointer to hearer agent

analysis

Analysis of utterance in which roles have to be determined.

Details

To check if word order can be used, Yang's Tolerance principle is used.

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

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

References

Charles Yang (2016), The price of linguistic productivity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

See Also

INTERPRET

Examples

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)
utterance=PRODUCE(1, proposition)
analysis=ANALYZE(2, utterance, situation)
WORDORDER(2, analysis)
population[[2]]$wordOrder[2,]$success=999	#makes AUV standard
population[[2]]$wordOrder
WORDORDER(2, analysis)