Causativity and Agency
Who caused this to happen, and how directly?
Grammatical marking of causation, including the distinction between direct and indirect causation and between an actor and a causer.
- T1 · Documented
Field record pending — no linked language specimens yet.
What linguistic research records.
- T2 · Interpreted
audit logs rarely separate proximate actor from underlying causer
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- T3 · Proposed
Cause<Actor, Event>
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.
- cause of an event
- directness of the causation
- actor separate from causer
Interpreted
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- audit logs rarely separate proximate actor from underlying causer
Proposed
Speculative constructs — not executable code.
- Cause<Actor, Event>
Executed
Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.
No executable runtime yet. This capability has not been compiled to a deterministic machine.
- cause chains as first-class records
- direct vs indirect causation in accountability
- Causal categories are analytically loaded; over-generalisation risks are real.
No specific languages have been linked to this capability yet.
Cited as examples of the feature, not as claims about all speakers of these languages.
Source required
Research source pending verification.
Requires careful sourcing.
- Record version
- 0.1
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-21
- Controversy level
- moderate