2001, Arthur J. Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Åke Viberg,Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics:
[…] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to expresspragmatics such as contrast, emphasis,[…]
The conversational tone is almost uncanny. But it’s not a sign that large language models are becoming human; it’s a sign that they have masteredpragmatics.[…] When a computational linguist told me several years ago about the advances artificial intelligence was making in simulating human language, the first thing I thought was: The hot next step will be getting topragmatics.
