354 Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska
In the meantime, the memory search for the value of the temporal satel-
lite has been completed. Copies of the saved IL and RL structures are
popped back to working memory again. Our (tentative) analysis in terms of
FDG is that IL is updated as in (27).
(27) (M 6 : [INFRM [(A 6 : [DECL (P 1 )S (P 2 )A
[R 1 (x 1 )TOP R 2 (x 8 :CLASS)FOC T 1 (f 1 : GO INTO)
R 3 (x 9 : 3+ MINUTE)FOC])])]])
Recall that expression had stopped at the SAT node as given in Figure 5
above, of which the preposition has been expressed. Control returns to this
Node 15. Its Config field will be extended as follows. Again, the new ele-
ments are represented in bold characters.
(28) NODE 15 (fully instantiated)
Lab: sat
Config: [(x 9 )FOC ],
[(def (3 OR 4) x 9 : minute [N])TEMP]
SubCat: prep
Two things will happen after this. On the one hand, the syntactic struc-
ture of Figure 5 will be further expanded with the new elements on node
- This gives us the expression tree in Figure 6 below.
SENTENCE
1 4 9 14
SUBJ VC SAT SAT
2 5 7 10 12 15 21
PRO AUX PRED PREP N PREP NUM OP NUM
3 6 8 11 13 16 18 20 22
/he/ /would/ /come/ /into/ /class/ /a-t/ /three/ /or/ /f/
Figure 6. Partial expression tree; stage 3
At the same time, the new information on Node 15 will percolate upwards
to the top node. As a result, the Config field of Node 1 will contain the fol-
lowing RL level information: