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REALIZATIONrlz.spa-ar.comparison

comparison in Rioplatense Spanish

Rioplatense Spanish marks comparison mainly by placing más or menos before the graded word and que before the standard, with a small closed set of one word comparatives surviving beside it.

Rioplatense Spanish builds the comparative by placing más or menos before the graded word and introducing the thing compared against with que, as in más alto que Juan, and it builds the relative superlative by adding a definite article to the same frame, as in el más alto. Matching rather than exceeding uses a separate frame, tan plus the graded word plus como. Four one word comparatives survive from an older system and are used in place of the frame for their own adjectives: mejor, peor, mayor and menor. Intensification without any comparison at all is a suffix on the word itself, as in altísimo, so the dimension's absolute value is marked on the graded word while the relational values are marked around it. A comparative reading cannot be obtained from a bare adjective, so wherever comparison is intended the marking is required, which is what the obligatory value records.

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.

  • CONSTRUCTIONcomparativa de igualdad con tancon.spa.comparativa-de-igualdad-con-tan
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    periphrasticit takes more than one word
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the degree word before the graded word and the standard introduced by como
  • CONSTRUCTIONcomparativa de inferioridadcon.spa.comparativa-de-inferioridad
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    periphrasticit takes more than one word
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the degree word before the graded word and the standard introduced by que
  • CONSTRUCTIONcomparativa de superioridadcon.spa.comparativa-de-superioridad
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    periphrasticit takes more than one word
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the degree word before the graded word and the standard introduced by que
  • CONSTRUCTIONsuperlativo relativocon.spa.superlativo-relativo
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    periphrasticit takes more than one word
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    a definite article added to the comparative frame, with the set compared against introduced by de
  • FORMmásfrm.spa.mas-tilde
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    periphrasticit takes more than one word
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    before the graded word, with que before the standard, and with a definite article added for the relative superlative
  • FORMmejorfrm.spa.mejor
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    cumulativeone exponent carries this and other categories at once
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    the whole word, which carries the comparison together with the meaning of the adjective it replaces
  • FORMtanfrm.spa.tan
    exponencevia.payload.exponence
    periphrasticit takes more than one word
    mediumvia.payload.medium
    both
    positionvia.payload.position
    before the graded word, with como before the standard

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.

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  • aktionsart6 values
  • number6 values
  • person6 values
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  • 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

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