Logos

FORMfrm.spa.mejor

mejor

The single word comparative of the adjective for good, used in place of the ordinary two word frame and following no rule.

The comparison record names four one word comparatives that survive from an older system and are used in place of the frame for their own adjectives. This is the first of them, and it is a stored shape: nothing in the adjective predicts it and the frame that produces every other comparative does not apply. The shape is declared irreducible, and the rule it departs from is the comparative construction this graph has since carved as an object: naming it as what the shape overrides is what turns the departure into an accounted-for fact rather than a silence.

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
  • spanishmejor
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

The shape

form.shape

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

surfacesurface
mejor
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
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places drawn
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None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
  • FORMmejorfrm.spa.mejorFORM

    The single word comparative of the adjective for good, used in place of the ordinary two word frame and following no rule.

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
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places drawn
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  • FORMmejorfrm.spa.mejorFORM

    The single word comparative of the adjective for good, used in place of the ordinary two word frame and following no rule.

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

via

edges.via

this realizer, this way

this object realizes

overrides

edges.overrides

declared arbitrariness (A7)

this object overrides

  • CONSTRUCTIONcomparativa de superioridadcon.spa.comparativa-de-superioridaddocumented
    • reasonThe construction places a degree word before the graded adjective and is available for almost every adjective in the language. This shape is a stored one word comparative that occupies the position the construction would otherwise fill for this adjective, blocking it rather than competing with it.

form-of

edges.form-of

this shape belongs to this word

this shape belongs to

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by