Logos

REALIZATIONrlz.spa-ar.number

number in Rioplatense Spanish

Rioplatense Spanish marks a two way singular and plural contrast by suffix on nouns and determiners and copies it onto adjectives and onto the finite verb.

Rioplatense Spanish grammaticalises only the coarsest split the dimension describes, one entity against more than one, and marks it with the suffix -s or -es on the noun, as libro and libros show. Determiners and adjectives copy the value, and the finite verb agrees with its subject in number as well as in person, so a single value surfaces several times across one clause. The language has no form for exactly two, none for a small countable few, and none for an abundant or exhaustive set. A small group of nouns already ending in -s is invariable in shape, among them crisis and análisis, and their number is read off the determiner rather than off the noun. Because number is inflected rather than stored with the word, and because the forms that lack tense and agreement carry none, the value is recorded as obligatory rather than pervasive.

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
None recorded.
sourcessources
  • SOURCENueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)src.nueva-gramaticano page in v1
  • SOURCEA New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt and Benjamin)src.butt-benjaminno page in v1

What this language does about this category

realization.state

One of five states, or the eleventh cell: nobody has recorded a state, which is not a claim that the language lacks the distinction.

statestate
explicit, documented: marked in the word itselfexplicit
obligatorinessobligatoriness
obligatorymarked wherever it applies

The realizers

realization.via

Every via edge: this realizer, this way. An explicit or periphrastic state is a summary of this list, recomputed on every build and never authored.

  • FORMlasfrm.spa.las
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    cumulativeone exponent carries this and other categories at once
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    a separate word before the noun, carrying the plural value together with gender and definiteness
  • FORMlosfrm.spa.los
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    cumulativeone exponent carries this and other categories at once
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    a separate word before the noun, carrying the plural value together with gender and definiteness
  • OPERATIONconcordanciaopr.spa.concordancia
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    cumulativeone exponent carries this and other categories at once
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the ending of the finite verb and of every word depending on the noun, which states the value together with person or with gender
  • OPERATIONpluralizaciónopr.spa.pluralizacion
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    separativethis category has an exponent of its own
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    a suffix at the end of the noun or adjective, whose shape the singular's own ending decides

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.

has-a

edges.has-a

the parent carries this

this object carries

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by