Logos

FUNCTIONfun.spa.operador-discursivo

operador discursivo

The role held by a unit that conditions how the segment it stands in is to be taken, without relating that segment to any other.

A discourse operator acts on one segment and looks at no other. It strengthens or weakens what the segment commits its producer to, marks the segment as evident or as unexpected, or narrows it to a point of view from which it holds. Because it is confined to its own segment it contributes nothing to the structure of the discourse, and a text with every operator removed keeps the same shape while making different commitments, which is the reverse of what happens when connectives are removed. The role is the sharpest contrast in the discourse level and the reason the four roles here are carved as four: two of them look back at an earlier segment, this one looks only at its own, and the fourth looks at the exchange rather than at the text. That carve is a convention adopted in this graph rather than a finding, and a description that splits this role further, along the lines the readings suggest, would not contradict anything recorded here. The enumerated inventory of the forms that hold this role 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
  • metalanguagediscourse operator
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

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.

  • FUNCTIONconector discursivofun.spa.conector-discursivodocumented

    what tells them apartA connective relates two segments and is uninterpretable without the earlier one, so moving the segment to the start of a text leaves it stranded. An operator acts on the segment it stands in and needs no second segment at all, so the same move leaves it intact. That is a test on the discourse rather than a judgment about meaning, and it is the only mechanical one the pair admits.

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

  • FUNCTIONhablantefun.spa.hablantedocumented
    • conditionWhat the unit conditions is the strength and the standing of the commitment behind the segment, so the role is interpretable only against the participant making that commitment. A segment with no one behind it leaves the unit with nothing to operate on.

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by