MoLE (version 1.0.1)

TOPICCOPY: Make anaphoric copy of topic

Description

Make verb-adjacent anaphoric copy of contrastive topic. Only applies if topics are moved to first position (after this generalization is made).

Usage

TOPICCOPY(speakerID, proposition)

Arguments

speakerID

Pointer to speaker agent

proposition

Proposition that agent is formulating

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

Details

Anaphoric copies only need to distinguish topic from other argument for reestablished/non-continuous topics (cf. Givon)

References

T. Givon (1976), "Topic, pronoun, and grammatical agreement", In: C. Li (Ed.), Subject and topic, New York, etc.: Academic Press, Inc, 149-188.

See Also

TOPICFIRST

Examples

# NOT RUN {
FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)
proposition$verb$topic=0; if('internal'%in%names(proposition)){proposition$internal$topic=0}
proposition$external$topic=1; proposition$external$recency=10
world$topicCopy=FALSE
proposition=TOPICFIRST(1, proposition)
PRODUCE(1, proposition)
proposition=TOPICCOPY(1, proposition)
PRODUCE(1, proposition)
# }