Logos

Logos

A universal grammar object graph. Under construction.

Everything below is the render seam drawn over synthetic test fixtures. The ids start with zz and none of it is authored content. The board replaces this page when it lands.

The state is the glyph

What the language does about a distinction. Five marks, told apart by shape and weight before colour, so the board reads the same in greyscale. The five are not ranked and are listed in no order.

  • explicitmarked in the word itself
  • periphrasticmarked, but by more than one word
  • absentthe language does not encode this. Somebody looked and asserted it
  • voidthe question does not arise for this language
  • unresolvedit applies, and the language does not settle it
  • unwrittennobody has recorded this yet. Not a claim about the language. Not one of the five: it is the absence of a claim, not a claim of absence

The status is the treatment

How well we know it. Three treatments, each carrying a mark of its own rather than a colour, crossed against the five states.

  • documentedasserted, and the sources agree
  • contestedasserted, and the sources disagree
  • undocumentednobody has written this yet

1 of 6 cells is unwritten. Nobody has recorded a state for it, which is not a claim that the distinction is missing.

Cells

One row per dimension, one column per shipped language. An asserted absence and a cell nobody has written are different marks, which is the whole obligation this layer carries.

dimensionZz-oneZz-two
number nominalexplicit, documented: marked in the word itselfexplicitabsent, documented: the language does not encode this. Somebody looked and asserted itabsent
mood verbalvoid, documented: the question does not arise for this languagevoidunresolved, documented: it applies, and the language does not settle itunresolved
register clausalunwritten: nobody has recorded this yet. Not a claim about the languageunwrittenabsent, contested: the language does not encode this. Somebody looked and asserted itabsentcontested. No sources are attached yet

Value sets

A dimension draws a sequence only where it declares one. Asking for a scale on the first of these two throws before anything renders.

number, which declares no order

  • dual
  • plural
  • singular

This dimension declares no order. Listed alphabetically, which is a display choice and not a fact about the values.

register, which declares a scale

  1. 1formal
  2. 2neutral
  3. 3informal

This dimension declares its values a scale. Shown in the declared order.

Any field that can be absent

A value, an absence somebody asserted, and a silence nobody has filled. Three renders, never one dash.

  • 412
  • frequency rank: asserted absent. Somebody looked, and there is nothing hereabsentno rank applies to a bound form
  • frequency rank: the question does not arise herevoid
  • frequency rank: no source held here records itunattested
  • frequency rank: not recorded. Nobody has written this yetnot recorded