Logos

DERIVATIONder.spa.el-modo-lo-elige-el-introductor

mood in a subordinate clause is chosen by the introducer

The word introducing a subordinate clause fixes the mood of its verb, so the choice is a property of the frame rather than of the speaker's attitude.

Descriptions that present the dependent mood as expressing doubt or unreality face the difficulty that many clauses in that mood express neither, and that many clauses expressing both are not in it. Stating the selection as a property of the introducing word removes the difficulty for most of the data: a clause of purpose is in the dependent mood whatever the speaker thinks, because the word introducing it admits nothing else. The residue is the smaller set of introducers that admit both moods, and there the choice does carry meaning, which is a real result rather than a hedge.

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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.

mood in a subordinate clause is chosen by the introducer

The word introducing a subordinate clause fixes the mood of its verb, so the choice is a property of the frame rather than of the speaker's attitude.

documentedforward

  1. 1selección de modoA clause is subordinated by a predicate or a conjunction whose class decides the mood of the verb inside it.

derives 3 of 4enumerated

Clauses introduced by a word that admits both moods, where the choice is genuinely the speaker's and states something about the situation referred to.

Residue (1)

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 3 of 4enumerated

Clauses introduced by a word that admits both moods, where the choice is genuinely the speaker's and states something about the situation referred to.

every case was counted

Residue

Everything joined to this object

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Fan-out per dimension

A4

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