Logos

OPERATIONopr.spa.omision-del-sujeto

omisión del sujeto

The absence of a subject pronoun before a finite verb, which is the ordinary case, the pronoun appearing only where a sentence contrasts or disambiguates.

The verb ending states person and number, so a subject pronoun that only restates them adds nothing and is left out. Omission is therefore the unmarked case and the pronoun is the marked one, which reverses the description a speaker of a language without this property expects and is the reason the rule is worth stating at all. No source this graph carries states this rule, and it is asserted here from the language's own behaviour rather than taken from a reference that states it; whether any reference states it explicitly has not been checked by the author of this node. The half of the rule the operation cannot cover is the interesting half: a pronoun that does appear is doing work, and naming that work requires a notion of contrast this version of the graph has no field for. The coverage method is recorded as estimated for that reason, since a count of covered cases here rests on a judgment about discourse and not on an enumeration.

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
  • metalanguagesubject omission
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
syntacticit arranges or constrains words in a structure
triggertrigger

A finite verb has a subject whose person and number its own ending already states, and nothing in the sentence sets that subject against another.

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 2estimated

The sentence in which the pronoun does appear. Contrast and disambiguation are the conditions usually given for it, and neither is stated anywhere in this graph as a property a check could read, so the operation says that the pronoun sometimes appears and does not say when.

the number is an estimate and nothing counted it

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

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain