Logos

OPERATIONopr.spa.asignacion-de-genero

asignación de género

The sorting of a noun into one of two agreement classes, done once when the word enters the lexicon rather than at each use.

Assignment happens once and is then a property of the word, which is what separates it from the agreement that makes it visible: a noun does not choose a class in a sentence, it brings one. For nouns denoting people and many animals the class tracks the sex of the referent; elsewhere it correlates with the final vowel strongly enough to be worth stating and weakly enough that the correlation cannot be called a rule. That is why the operation covers two of the four declared classes and leaves two as residue rather than claiming the ending decides. The residue is not a small tail. It is where the two-way system stops being two-way, and a reader who takes the ending as decisive will be wrong in exactly those cases.

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
  • metalanguagegender assignment
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 noun enters the lexicon, by borrowing, by compounding or by derivation.

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 2 of 4enumerated

The common gender nouns, which take either agreement according to the person referred to, and the ambiguous nouns, which take either with no difference in what they refer to. Both are stored lists and this operation predicts membership in neither.

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.

becomes

edges.becomes

the parent converts into this

this object converts into

applies-to

edges.applies-to

the operation's input

this operation applies to

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by