Logos

The board

Every grammatical distinction Logos tracks, and what each shipped language does about it. Not a list of what has been written about a language: a census of the language, generated from the graph, complete by construction.

21 dimensions across 28 rows, 1 shipped language, 21 cells. Every cell has a record.

One column: Rioplatense Spanish. The columns are the languages the graph declares shipped, so an unshipped language has no column to hide.

Nominal

Verbal

Clausal

Sections run in the order the schema declares for the group axis; inside a section, rows keep the order they were authored in. Nothing here is sorted alphabetically or by state. A dimension filed under two groups appears under both, one object, two rows.

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

0 of 21 cells are unwritten. Nobody has recorded a state for them, which is not a claim that the distinction is missing.