REFCHECK: Check referential capacity
In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Check if pronoun is sufficiently strong to establish reference to referent. If not, another word is recruited for support, the pronoun being suffixed to the verb.

1	REFCHECK(speakerID, proposition, situation)

`speakerID`	Pointer to speaker agent
`proposition`	Proposition in which the referential expressions are checked
`situation`	Situation in which referential relations have to be established

Strength is determined by formal mass, i.e. simple word length. Non-local arguments are matched with real-world argument; local pronoun with role, after which marker is removed. If there's no local pronominal paradigm yet, select prominent noun for local ref

a proposition, i.e. a list:

`external`	representation of the external argument, checked for strength
`internal`	representation of the internal argument, if identified, checked for strength
`verb`	representation of the action argument, possibly including person indexing if original expression for (one of the) event participants fell short
`target`	target event to be described

Sander Lestrade

Zeevat, Henk. 2007. "Simulating recruitment in evolution". Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation ed. by G. Bouma, I. Kraemer & J. Zwarts, 175-194. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ariel, M. (1999). The development of person agreement markers: From pronouns to higher accessibility markers. In M. Barlow & S. Kemmer (Eds.), Usage based models of language (p. 197-260). Stanford: CSLI.

PREPARE

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
(proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation))
REFCHECK(1, proposition, situation)	
#only effective if words have grammaticalized already