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Relationship and ResponsibilitySource requiredDocumentedControversy: moderate

Relationship and Social Authority

What relationship exists between the participants?

Grammatical marking of the social relationship between speaker, addressee and referents, including honorific systems.

Graft transformationField record → structural reading → speculative construct → running machine
  1. T1 · Documented

    Attested in 3 languages: Japanese, Korean, Javanese.

    What linguistic research records.

  2. T2 · Interpreted

    role-based access systems flatten social nuance

    How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.

  3. T3 · Proposed

    role-parameterised operations

    Speculative constructs — not executable code.

  4. T4 · Executed

    Not yet compiled to a deterministic runtime.

    Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.

§ EvidenceFour tiers of verifiability

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.

T1Documented

Documented

What linguistic research records.

  • hierarchy between participants
  • institutional role of the actor
  • level of respect implied
T2Interpreted

Interpreted

How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.

  • role-based access systems flatten social nuance
  • actor identity often loses institutional context
T3Proposed

Proposed

Speculative constructs — not executable code.

  • role-parameterised operations
  • authority-tagged actors
T4Executed

Executed

Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.

No executable runtime yet. This capability has not been compiled to a deterministic machine.

Computational opportunities
  • authority-aware functions
  • role-sensitive interfaces
  • socially constrained actions
  • institutional permissions
Warnings against overgeneralisation
  • Honorific structure describes language, not the moral character of its speakers.
Documented in languages

Cited as examples of the feature, not as claims about all speakers of these languages.

Research status

Source required

Research source pending verification.

Ethically sensitive area. Requires careful sourcing before Verified status.

Version
Record version
0.2
Last reviewed
2026-07-21
Controversy level
moderate