Logos

DERIVATIONder.spa.contraccion-solo-en-el-masculino-singular

the two contractions are confined to one cell

Only two prepositions fuse with the article, only in the masculine singular, and the fusion is obligatory in writing wherever the sequence arises.

The contraction rule fires on a sequence of two specific words and it produces exactly two outputs, which is why the pair can be listed rather than generated. Its narrowness is the interesting part. No other preposition fuses, no other cell of the article does, and the feminine and plural shapes stand beside the same two prepositions unchanged. That confinement is evidence that the rule is stored at the level of the two resulting words rather than derived from a general phonological process, since a general process would have no reason to stop at one gender and one number.

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
  • 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

Premises

derivation.premises

What has to be true for this chain to run. Roughly half of a chain's premises are other derivations, so a premise is often itself a chain.

the two contractions are confined to one cell

Only two prepositions fuse with the article, only in the masculine singular, and the fusion is obligatory in writing wherever the sequence arises.

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Premises (2)

  1. 1contracciónOne of the two contracting prepositions stands immediately before the masculine singular definite article.

Conclusions (2)

derives 2 of 2enumerated

None.

Premises and conclusions declare no order (A16); listed alphabetically by id, a display choice and not a claim about which matters most. The steps above them are the one part of this component that IS a declared sequence, read from the applies-to composition chain.

Conclusions

derivation.conclusions

What the chain establishes. This is a set rather than a single fact: 45 percent of sampled derivations conclude about several things at once, and the several-ness is the claim.

Coverage, and what it does not reach

derivation.coverage

The arithmetic half is a required field and the build checks it. The residue rows are the structured half of the same statement.

derives 2 of 2enumerated

None.

every case was counted, and the count closes: nothing is left over

Residue

No residue row. Where the coverage statement above says nothing is left over, that agreement is the record being consistent with itself; where it does not, the structured half is missing.

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.

Every one of this object’s 4 edges are rendered above, in the sections its own type owns. Nothing is missing here and nothing is repeated.