Logos

FUNCTIONfun.spa.marcador-conversacional

marcador conversacional

The role held by a unit that manages the exchange itself, claiming or handing over a turn, appealing for agreement, or acknowledging what was just said.

A conversational marker works on the exchange rather than on the text. It opens a turn, holds one while the producer assembles what comes next, hands one over, asks the addressee to agree, or registers that what the addressee said was received. Because the exchange is what it manages, it is the only one of the four discourse roles that is absent from a monologue, and its distribution is spoken rather than written, which is a fact about the medium and not about the grammar. The units that hold it are the ones most often mistaken for words with no meaning, and the mistake comes from looking for a contribution to the proposition when the contribution is to the turn. Several of them are forms of the interjection class and several are borrowed from adverbs and verbs, so once again the grouping is a grouping of roles. The enumerated inventory of the forms that hold this role in the language is not authored in this record.

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
  • metalanguageconversational marker
sourcessources
An empty list, which is an assertion: this rests on nothing external, and somebody checked. It is not the same as nobody having looked.

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
discourseit is a role played across utterances, in the discourse

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

  • FUNCTIONdestinatariofun.spa.destinatariodocumented
    • conditionThe role manages an exchange, so it presupposes a participant being addressed. It is the one discourse role that disappears entirely from a text with no addressee present, which is what distinguishes it from the three that operate on the text alone.

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by