TOPICCOPY: Make anaphoric copy of topic
In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

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

1	TOPICCOPY(speakerID, proposition)

`speakerID`	Pointer to speaker agent
`proposition`	Proposition that agent is formulating

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

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

Sander Lestrade

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

TOPICFIRST

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)