Logos

REALIZATIONrlz.spa-ar.person

person in Rioplatense Spanish

Rioplatense Spanish marks person by suffix on every finite verb and in its pronouns, over a five slot set with vos in the familiar singular and ustedes as the only plural addressee.

Every finite verb in Rioplatense Spanish carries a person and number suffix, and the pronoun naming the same referent is usually left out because the suffix already identifies it. The variety runs a five slot set rather than the six of peninsular teaching: yo, vos, él or ella or usted, nosotros, and ellos or ellas or ustedes. Vos stands where tú stands elsewhere and takes agreement of its own, tenés in the present and tené as a command. Ustedes serves as the only form for more than one addressee and takes the agreement of the set that refers to neither speaker nor addressee, so no sixth row exists. Usted refers to the addressee while taking that same agreement, which is why the suffix alone does not always identify who is being spoken to. The language marks no contrast between including and excluding the addressee among a group, and it separates no two third party referents from each other. The value is obligatory rather than pervasive because the forms that lack tense and agreement carry no person at all.

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.

  • FORMcantafrm.spa.canta
    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, carrying person together with number, tense and mood
  • FORMcantásfrm.spa.cantas-tilde
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    cumulativeone exponent carries this and other categories at once
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the ending agreeing with the familiar singular address pronoun of this variety, which takes agreement no other pronoun takes
  • FORMustedesfrm.spa.ustedes
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    cumulativeone exponent carries this and other categories at once
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the stressed pronoun of the only plural addressee slot, taking the agreement of the set referring to neither speaker nor addressee
  • FORMvosfrm.spa.vos
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    cumulativeone exponent carries this and other categories at once
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the stressed subject pronoun of the familiar singular slot, ordinarily left out for the same reason
  • FORMyofrm.spa.yo
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    cumulativeone exponent carries this and other categories at once
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the stressed subject pronoun, ordinarily left out because the verb ending already identifies the referent

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