Logos

CONSTRUCTIONcon.spa.perfecto-con-haber

pretérito perfecto compuesto

A two part predicate in which an auxiliary carrying the tense stands before a frozen participle, locating a completed event before the point the tense locates.

Two analyses of this pattern are held and they disagree about whether it belongs to the graph as a construction at all. On the first it is a periphrasis: two words, an auxiliary and a participle, joined by the same schema that joins the resultative pattern, and the frozen participle is a residue rather than a difference in kind. On the second it is an inflectional tense that happens to be written as two words, since the auxiliary has no independent use, nothing may be inserted between the two elements in the modern language, and the pair fills a cell in the paradigm exactly as a single word does elsewhere. The record adopts the first and is marked contested, because the second is held by named reference grammars about this same pattern. Its territory against the simple past differs sharply by variety, and in the River Plate region it is markedly narrower than in the peninsular standard.

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
  • metalanguagecompound perfect
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
frequentit is stored because it recurs often enough to be learned whole

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 auxiliar haber, finitolexically specified: only the fillers below may occupy it

    functionslots[].fn
    No function is assigned to this slot.
  2. 1el participio, invariable en masculino singularlexically specified: only the fillers below may occupy it

    fillerslots[].filler

Slot template

2 slots: 2 constrained, 0 positional, 1 naming a grammatical function.

  1. el auxiliar haber, finito
    constrained
    • verbo auxiliarclass
  2. el participio, invariable en masculino singular
    constrained
    • verboclass

    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
2
places drawn
2
multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.

dimensions in viewauxiliary

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.

dimensions in viewauxiliary

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.

is-a

edges.is-a

subsumption

has-a

edges.has-a

the parent carries this

this object carries

selects

edges.selects

the parent requires this elsewhere

this object requires, elsewhere

    • conditionThe auxiliary position admits only the perfect auxiliary, which has no use outside this construction and the existential one, so the pairing is total.

via

edges.via

this realizer, this way

this object realizes

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain