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OPERATIONopr.spa.apocope

apócope

The loss of a word's final segment when it stands immediately before the word it modifies, leaving a shorter shape used in no other position.

The set of words that shorten is small and closed, and the shortening is conditioned by position alone, so the same word appears in full immediately after the noun it modifies and in short form immediately before it. Because the condition is position, the operation belongs beside the syntactic rules that place a modifier rather than beside the paradigm-building operations, and it is carved as morphological only because what it changes is the shape of a word. What the operation does not state is which words belong to the set, and that list is not predictable: two adjectives with the same ending, the same length and the same syntax may differ on whether they shorten.

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
  • metalanguageapocope
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
morphologicalit changes the shape of words
triggertrigger

A member of the apocopating set stands immediately before a singular noun it modifies.

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 position after the noun, where the full shape appears and nothing is lost, which is what shows the shortening to be about position and not about the word.

every case was counted

Everything joined to this object

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What this object is a kind of

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  • OPERATIONapócopeopr.spa.apocopeOPERATION

    The loss of a word's final segment when it stands immediately before the word it modifies, leaving a shorter shape used in no other position.

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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  • OPERATIONapócopeopr.spa.apocopeOPERATION

    The loss of a word's final segment when it stands immediately before the word it modifies, leaving a shorter shape used in no other position.

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

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by