Logos

CONSTRUCTIONcon.spa.nominalizacion-con-lo

nominalización con lo

A pattern in which a determiner with no gender stands before an adjective or a relative clause, naming the property or the fact rather than anything bearing it.

The construction produces a phrase naming a property or a fact rather than a thing bearing it, and it does so with a determiner that carries no gender and has no plural. Two positions are held about what that determiner is. On the first it is an article, filling the same paradigm slot as the masculine and feminine articles and differing from them in having no referent to agree with, which is the analysis the academy grammar adopts while recording that the question remains open. On the second it is a pronoun, since it never accompanies a noun and the articles always do. The record adopts the first as a convention and marks itself contested, which is the honest form of a choice made where a named authority states that the debate continues. Beside the property naming use the construction has a quantifying one, in which the phrase measures the degree of the property rather than naming it.

statusstatus
contestedasserted, and the sources disagree
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
  • metalanguageneuter nominalisation
sourcessources
  • SOURCENueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)src.nueva-gramaticano page in v1
  • SOURCEA New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt and Benjamin)src.butt-benjaminno page in v1

Why this is a construction at all

construction.admission

Goldberg's admission test: a template earns storage either by being unpredictable or by being frequent.

admissionadmission
unpredictableit is stored because its meaning does not follow from its parts

The slots

construction.slots

At least two, by the schema: fewer is not a multi-element template. Every filler is a link, never a name in prose.

  1. 0el determinante lo, invariable y sin génerolexically specified: only the fillers below may occupy it

    fillerslots[].filler
    functionslots[].fn
    FUNCTIONdeterminaciónfun.spa.determinacion

  2. 1el adjetivo, invariable en masculino singular, o la cláusula de relativolexically specified: only the fillers below may occupy it

    fillerslots[].filler
    functionslots[].fn
    FUNCTIONnúcleofun.spa.nucleo

Slot template

2 slots: 2 constrained, 0 positional, 2 naming a grammatical function.

  1. el determinante lo, invariable y sin género
    constrained
    • artículoclass

    names determinación

  2. el adjetivo, invariable en masculino singular, o la cláusula de relativo
    constrained
    • adjetivoclass

    names núcleo

Confusable with

construction.confusable

Objects a reader is likely to mix up with this one, and the difference that separates them. The edge is symmetric and stored once, so this renders on both objects' pages from the one statement.

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

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

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

this object carries

selects

edges.selects

the parent requires this elsewhere

this object requires, elsewhere

  • CLASSadjetivocls.spa.adjetivodocumented
    • conditionThe adjective takes the masculine singular shape and agrees with nothing, since the construction supplies no entity for it to agree with.

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by