Logos

FUNCTIONfun.spa.modificador

modificador

The role inside a phrase held by an element that narrows what the head names without being required by it, and that can be removed leaving a complete phrase.

The modifier narrows what the head names, and it is the only phrase level role that can appear more than once in one phrase and can appear on either side of the head. Which side it takes is not free, and the difference is a difference in reading rather than in style: an adjective placed after the head picks out a subset of what the head names, while the same adjective placed before it comments on what the head names without dividing it. The agreement recorded here holds of the adjectival case and of that case alone. A modifier that is a phrase headed by a preposition carries no agreement, and neither does a clause used as a modifier, so the residue of the agreement statement is every modifier that is not an adjective. The role is separated from the complement role by whether the head demands it and not by where it stands, which is the harder of the two phrase level distinctions and the reason the two records point at each other.

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
  • metalanguagemodifier
  • spanishadyacente
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.

  • FUNCTIONcomplemento del núcleofun.spa.complemento-del-nucleodocumented

    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.

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None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
  • FUNCTIONmodificadorfun.spa.modificadorFUNCTION

    The role inside a phrase held by an element that narrows what the head names without being required by it, and that can be removed leaving a complete phrase.

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.

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  • FUNCTIONmodificadorfun.spa.modificadorFUNCTION

    The role inside a phrase held by an element that narrows what the head names without being required by it, and that can be removed leaving a complete phrase.

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

  • FUNCTIONnúcleofun.spa.nucleodocumented
    • conditionModification is modification of something, so the role presupposes a head. Unlike the complement role it puts no requirement on which head, since any head may be modified and none demands it.

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by