1 to have greater importance than someone or something, or to have a higher rank than someone: --
She outranks the other officers involved in the investigation.
When markedness constraints outrank faithfulness constraints, the different input specifications are neutralized and ineffability of certain constructions is thus derived.
If the tone-head constraints outrank the majority of tone-placement\preservation constraints, the influence of heads and non-heads on tone will show through clearly.
In the other ranking, constraints on tone placement must outrank the stress-placement constraints.
The other essential ranking relates to constraints on tone placement : they must at least outrank the stress-placement constraints.
When the weights of the criteria change, the order (outranking) and relationship among alternative agricultural land-use types changes as well.
In such a system, the only constraints that will be inviolable in practice are those that outrank all potentially conflicting constraints.
In the latter case, the informative value of activation would outrank the uninformative value of disambiguation to result in overt argument realization.
A constraint is inviolable if and only if it outranks all conflicting constraints.
