Classifier Systems
What kind of thing is this in the current context?
Grammatical morphemes that categorise nouns by shape, function, animacy or social role during counting or reference.
- T1 · Documented
Attested in 2 languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese.
What linguistic research records.
- T2 · Interpreted
type systems collapse semantic category into a single machine type
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- T3 · Proposed
classifier-annotated types
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.
- semantic category of a referent
- context-dependent classification
- shape, function and animacy distinctions
Interpreted
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- type systems collapse semantic category into a single machine type
- conversions between domains lose the meaningful kind of a value
Proposed
Speculative constructs — not executable code.
- classifier-annotated types
- context-aware coercions
Executed
Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.
No executable runtime yet. This capability has not been compiled to a deterministic machine.
- semantic type systems
- context-dependent object handling
- safer data conversion between domains
- Classifier categories are language-specific and do not describe universal ontologies.
Cited as examples of the feature, not as claims about all speakers of these languages.
Illustrative
Research source pending verification.
Rich linguistic tradition; computational mapping remains conceptual.
- Record version
- 0.2
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-21
- Controversy level
- low