Logos

FUNCTIONfun.spa.complemento-del-nucleo

complemento del núcleo

The role inside a phrase held by an element the head itself requires, so that removing it leaves the phrase incomplete rather than merely less informative.

The head complement is the phrase level counterpart of the argument of a verb, and it exists because nouns and adjectives take arguments too. A noun naming an event inherits the participants of the event it names, and an adjective naming a relation requires the other term of the relation, so in both cases something inside the phrase is there because the head requires it rather than because a speaker chose to add it. The role is almost always carried by a phrase headed by a preposition, and which preposition is fixed by the head in the same way a verb fixes the preposition of its governed complement, which is the parallel worth drawing between the two levels. Position is not a test: the role stands after the head, and so does the modifying role, and both may be present at once, in which case the complement stands nearer the head.

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
  • metalanguagehead complement
sourcessources
  • SOURCENueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)src.nueva-gramaticano page in v1

The level it operates at

function.level

A function is a role something plays. This is the size of the thing whose structure supplies the role.

levellevel
phraseit is a role inside a phrase

Confusable with

function.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.

  • FUNCTIONmodificadorfun.spa.modificadordocumented

    what tells them apartInside a nominal phrase both are commonly phrases headed by de standing after the head, so position and shape separate nothing. What separates them is whether the head demands the element. A head naming an event or a relation carries its participants with it and is incomplete without them; a head naming an ordinary object carries none, and a phrase after it narrows what it names without being demanded. The test is whether the phrase can be dropped, and the residue is the set of heads for which speakers disagree about whether it can.

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.

selects

edges.selects

the parent requires this elsewhere

this object requires, elsewhere

  • FUNCTIONnúcleofun.spa.nucleodocumented
    • conditionThe role exists only relative to a head that requires it, and which heads require one is a lexical fact about those heads rather than a property of the phrase type.

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by