Aspect and Event State
Is the action beginning, continuing, repeated, attempted or completed?
Grammatical marking of the internal temporal shape of an event, independent of when it occurred.
- T1 · Documented
Attested in 1 language: Mandarin Chinese.
What linguistic research records.
- T2 · Interpreted
state machines collapse rich event shapes into a small set of statuses
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- T3 · Proposed
state-carrying values (Attempted<T>, Ongoing<T>, Completed<T>)
Speculative constructs — not executable code.
- T4 · Executed
Not yet compiled to a deterministic runtime.
Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.
Each tier is a different kind of claim. We keep them visually distinct so a reader can never confuse a field record with a deterministic run.
Documented
What linguistic research records.
- beginning, middle and end of a process
- repetition and habituality
- attempts distinguished from completions
Interpreted
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- state machines collapse rich event shapes into a small set of statuses
- attempt-vs-completion distinctions are commonly discarded
Proposed
Speculative constructs — not executable code.
- state-carrying values (Attempted<T>, Ongoing<T>, Completed<T>)
- process descriptors
Executed
Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.
No executable runtime yet. This capability has not been compiled to a deterministic machine.
- richer state machines
- process modelling primitives
- interruption and retry semantics
- attempted-versus-completed distinctions in effects
- Aspect is not a synonym for tense; do not conflate the two.
Cited as examples of the feature, not as claims about all speakers of these languages.
Illustrative
Research source pending verification.
Strong candidate for a future graft focused on process state.
- Record version
- 0.2
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-21
- Controversy level
- low