Logos

OPERATIONopr.spa.alternancia-del-articulo

alternancia del artículo

The use of the article shape otherwise found with masculine nouns in front of a feminine noun that begins with a stressed a, the noun's own class unchanged.

The noun does not change class and every other word depending on it keeps the feminine agreement, so the alternation touches one word in one position and nothing else in the phrase. That is the test that settles what the operation is about: an adjective standing between the article and the noun blocks it, and the plural does not show it, both of which follow if the condition is a sequence of two vowels and neither of which follows if the condition is the noun. The node declares itself irreducible and names the agreement it overrides, because a shape that contradicts the class of its own noun is exactly the kind of fact a graph should be made to declare rather than allowed to sit quietly beside the rule it breaks.

statusstatus
documentedasserted, and the sources agree
provenanceprovenance
authoredwritten for Logos, from first principles
derivation statusderivation_status
irreducibleit follows from nothing: an arbitrary fact of the language
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
  • metalanguagearticle allomorphy before a stressed a
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.

What it does, and when it fires

operation.rule

The domain it works in, and the firing condition as a sentence. The checkable form of that condition is the selects group below.

domaindomain
phonologicalit changes sound, and the spelling that records sound
triggertrigger

A singular feminine noun beginning with a stressed a vowel is immediately preceded by its definite article.

How much it covers

operation.coverage

How many cases the operation actually derives, out of how many it claims, and how that was counted.

derives 1 of 2enumerated

The plural, where the ordinary feminine article appears and nothing alternates, which is what shows the alternation to be about two adjacent vowels and not about the noun that follows them.

every case was counted

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.

applies-to

edges.applies-to

the operation's input

this operation applies to

overrides

edges.overrides

declared arbitrariness (A7)

this object overrides

  • OPERATIONconcordanciaopr.spa.concordanciadocumented
    • reasonThe article takes a shape that does not match the class of the noun it stands with, so in this environment a phonological condition decides the article's shape and the agreement it shows everywhere else is not visible in it.

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by