TOPICFIRST: Put topic in first position
In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

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Put topic of the utterance in first position if such a tendency was observed in and therefore generalization was made on the basis of previous utterances.

1	TOPICFIRST(speakerID, proposition)

`speakerID`	Pointer to speaker agent
`proposition`	Proposition in which topic argument is to be moved

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

, in which the topic argument is put first

Sander Lestrade

Tomlin, R. S. (1986). Basic word order: Functional principles (Vol. 13). Routledge

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2014). Why might SOV be initially preferred and then lost or recovered? a theoretical framework. In: Proceedings of the 10th international conference (evolang10), pp. 66-73.

Bates, E., & MacWhinney, B. (1987). Competition, variation, and language learning. Mechanisms of language acquisition, 157-193.

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)
PRODUCE(1, proposition)
proposition=TOPICFIRST(1, proposition)
PRODUCE(1, proposition)