Develop initial proposition that consists of the expressions that refer to the participants of the event to be expressed (both objects and action). Proposition will be elaborated upon in later stages of the production processs, and word may be replaced later if they turn out to be insufficient (cf. PREPARE).
Usage
PROPOSITION(speakerID, situation)
Arguments
speakerID
Pointer to speaker agent
situation
Situation with target event to be referred to and number of distractor event
Value
a proposition, i.e. a list:
external
representation of the external argument
internal
representation of the internal argument
verb
representation of the action argument
target
target event to be described
Details
Words are ranked on the basis of a combination of semantic match (how well does word refer to its participant), frequency, and recency (cf. CANDIDATEORDER). The first word to be sufficiently distinctive is selected for expression.