Logos

CATEGORYcat.human

human

A referent classed as a person, the highest rank on the scale a grammar consults when it treats some participants as more salient than others.

Persons sit at the top of the animacy scale in every system that draws one. Where a grammar marks only part of the scale, persons are the part it marks first, and where a grammar allows only one participant to control agreement or to occupy a privileged position, a person outranks the alternatives. The rank is grammatical rather than biological: a referent can be treated as a person for these purposes without being one.

statusstatus
documentedasserted, and the sources agree
provenanceprovenance
authoredwritten for Logos, from first principles
derivation statusderivation_status
unstatednobody has said whether it follows from anything
saliencesalience
No salience. Where no frequency source applies the object carries none, rather than a default or a guess (03-schema.md §3.5).
aliasesaliases
None recorded.
sourcessources
  • SOURCEUniMorph Schema (Sylak-Glassman 2016)src.unimorph-schemano page in v1

What kind of category this is

category.classification

A category is either a question or one of its answers. Which it is decides what else may be said about it.

tiertier
valueone answer to a dimension's question
comparabilitycomparability
comparativethe same category is compared across languages
scopescope
No language scope. The field is null and that is an assertion, not a silence: a category is language-particular exactly when it names one.
groupsgroups
None. groups is dimension-only (03-schema.md §4.1a), so an empty list on a value is the correct reading and not a gap.
orderedordered
Not applicable. ordered is dimension-only: a value has no value set to order (03-schema.md §4.1a).

Everything joined to this object

One group per typed edge, in both directions. A1b guarantees no object node is an orphan, so this is the whole navigation: an object with no edges would have failed the build rather than reached this page.

What this object is a kind of

Walking this object's own `is-a` edges: what it is a kind of. Several branches from one object are several classification axes, not competing supertypes.

objects
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places drawn
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multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
  • CATEGORYhumancat.humanCATEGORY

    A referent classed as a person, the highest rank on the scale a grammar consults when it treats some participants as more salient than others.

Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.

Fan-out per dimension

A4

One row per dimension, largest first. That is a display order, not a verdict: 03-schema.md declares no threshold above which fan-out is too much, so this reports the count and grades nothing.

  • case13 values
  • mood8 values
  • voice8 values
  • aspect7 values
  • aktionsart6 values
  • number6 values
  • person6 values
  • tense6 values
  • comparison4 values
  • evidentiality4 values
  • gender4 values
  • politeness4 values
  • valency4 values
  • animacy3 values
  • definiteness3 values
  • deixis3 values
  • finiteness2 values
  • information structure2 values
  • interrogativity2 values
  • polarity2 values
  • switch-reference2 values

What kinds of this object there are

Walking the `is-a` edges that point at this object: what kinds of it there are. An object reachable two ways is drawn in both places and is still one object.

objects
1
places drawn
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multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
  • CATEGORYhumancat.humanCATEGORY

    A referent classed as a person, the highest rank on the scale a grammar consults when it treats some participants as more salient than others.

Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.

has-a

edges.has-a

the parent carries this

these carry this object

selects

edges.selects

the parent requires this elsewhere

these require this object elsewhere

  • FORMafrm.spa.adocumented
    • conditionthe direct object names a human being, or an animal treated as an individual, and is specific rather than any member of a kind; both conditions are required and each can fail on its own

admits

edges.admits

the dimension's value set

this object is admitted by

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by