;;; lang_profile_es.el — Spanish language profile for ELP.
;;; Keys the realizer's construction switches. Mirrors lang_profile_en / _pt.

(lang_profile_es
  (language        "Spanish")
  (iso639          "es")
  (family          "Romance")

  ;; -- core typology flags -------------------------------------------------
  (pro-drop            yes)    ; subjects routinely dropped; agreement carries person
  (obligatory-subject  no)
  (grammatical-gender  yes)    ; m/f on every noun; article+adjective AGREE
  (gender-source       lexicon); REAL per-noun gender from UniMorph — NOT a heuristic
  (do-support          no)
  (subject-aux-inversion no)   ; questions by intonation/punctuation, not inversion
  (question-strategy   intonation)
  (article-selection   "el/la/los/las un/una/unos/unas")
  (stressed-a-rule     yes)    ; fem sg noun in stressed a-/ha- takes el/un (el agua)
  (adjective-position  postnominal) ; default post; a few prenominal + apocope
  (adjective-agreement "gender+number")
  (question-punct      inverted)    ; opening ¿ ¡ required

  ;; -- MANDATORY CONTRACTIONS (coordinator quality bar) --------------------
  (contractions        ((de el "del") (a el "al")))
  (contraction-mandatory yes)  ; 'de el'/'a el' MUST surface as del/al

  ;; -- verb / aspect system ------------------------------------------------
  (verb-classes        (ar er ir))
  (tenses              (present preterite imperfect future conditional))
  (moods               (ind sbjv imp))
  (finite-agreement    "person+number (6 slots)")
  (perfect-aux         "haber")  ; haber + past participle (invariant -o)
  (progressive-aux     "estar")  ; estar + gerund
  (passive-aux         "ser")    ; ser + participle (agrees) + por-agent
  (copula-split        "ser/estar")  ; permanent vs stage-level
  (future              "infinitive + é/ás/á/emos/éis/án")

  ;; -- clitics / government ------------------------------------------------
  (object-clitics      yes)      ; me te lo la le nos os los las; proclisis/enclisis
  (clitic-order        "se II I III (le+lo -> se lo)")
  (enclisis            "imperative/infinitive/gerund + accent repair (dá+me+lo->dámelo)")
  (verb-prep-government yes)     ; verbs select prep (protestar+contra, escapar+de)

  ;; -- SACRED safety bar (shared with en/pt) -------------------------------
  (negation-faithful   yes))     ; polarity never dropped/inverted; unplaceable -> FLAG