Logos

FORMfrm.eng.better

better

The comparative of a high frequency adjective, sharing no material with the base it grades and therefore learned rather than derived.

A handful of the commonest gradable words replace their base outright in both graded steps. Nothing in the language derives the result, which is why it is declared irreducible: a rule producing it would be a rule with one member. Both regular series fail to reach these words, and a speaker applying either to them produces something ungrammatical rather than something unusual.

What was missing until now was the rule the shape departs from. It is filed as an object in the graph, the suppletion rule for grading, and pointing at it is what turns an unexplained shape into a declared exemption. Irreducibility on its own records only that nothing derives the shape; the edge records what it stands against.

statusstatus
documentedasserted, and the sources agree
provenanceprovenance
authoredwritten for Logos, from first principles
derivation statusderivation_status
irreducibleit follows from nothing: an arbitrary fact of the language
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
An empty list, which is an assertion: this rests on nothing external, and somebody checked. It is not the same as nobody having looked.

The shape

form.shape

What this form looks like, how it attaches, and in which medium it was recorded.

surfacesurface
better
boundnessboundness
freeit stands on its own as a word
host sizehost_size
host size: not recorded. Nobody has written this yetnot recorded
mediummedium
bothrecorded in both writing and speech
zerozero
falsethis form has a surface

The paradigm cell

form.cell

Where this form sits in a paradigm. A form that sits in none carries no cell, which is a fact about the form and not a gap.

This form sits in no paradigm. cell is optional exactly so that a form outside a paradigm can say so (03-schema.md §8.3).

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
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multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
  • FORMbetterfrm.eng.betterFORM

    The comparative of a high frequency adjective, sharing no material with the base it grades and therefore learned rather than derived.

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
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multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
  • FORMbetterfrm.eng.betterFORM

    The comparative of a high frequency adjective, sharing no material with the base it grades and therefore learned rather than derived.

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

overrides

edges.overrides

declared arbitrariness (A7)

this object overrides

  • OPERATIONsuppletive comparisonopr.eng.suppletive-comparisondocumented
    • reasonThe suppletion rule names which common words hand their graded steps to an unrelated word, and declares a coverage of zero for them because it never predicts what that word looks like. This shape is exactly that residue: the graded step of good, drawn from a base the plain form never uses. It is the case the rule was written to name, not an exception left over from it.

form-of

edges.form-of

this shape belongs to this word

this shape belongs to

  • LEXEMEgoodlex.eng.goodno page in v1documented
    • variant_iddefault