Logos

FUNCTIONfun.spa.determinacion

determinación

The role inside a nominal phrase held by the element that settles whether what the phrase names is being presented as identifiable, and how much of it is being named.

Determination is the clearest case in the graph of a role and a class being two different objects that share a name in ordinary usage. The class is a set of words; this role is a position those words occupy, and the two come apart in both directions. A word of the class can appear outside the role, standing alone in place of a whole phrase, and the role can be filled by nothing while still contributing a reading, since a phrase with an empty slot in front of its head is understood as saying something the same phrase with a determiner would not. The role is where the identifiability of what the phrase names is settled, and it is also where quantity is settled, which is why one slot holds both articles and quantifying words and why the two rarely stack. Its position is fixed at the front of the phrase, unlike the modifying role, which can stand on either side of the head.

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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).
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  • metalanguagespecifier
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

Everything joined to this object

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What this object is a kind of

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  • FUNCTIONdeterminaciónfun.spa.determinacionFUNCTION

    The role inside a nominal phrase held by the element that settles whether what the phrase names is being presented as identifiable, and how much of it is being named.

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.

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What kinds of this object there are

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  • FUNCTIONdeterminaciónfun.spa.determinacionFUNCTION

    The role inside a nominal phrase held by the element that settles whether what the phrase names is being presented as identifiable, and how much of it is being named.

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

  • CLASSdeterminantecls.spa.determinantedocumented
    • conditionThe role is filled by a member of the determiner class, or by nothing. An empty slot is itself a choice rather than an absence of one, since a phrase built on a bare plural or on a mass noun is read differently from the same phrase with a determiner in front of it.
  • FUNCTIONnúcleofun.spa.nucleodocumented
    • conditionThere is determination only of a nominal head, so the role presupposes a head to determine and cannot stand in a phrase built on any other kind of head.

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

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