Grammatical Number
How many are there, and does that count matter here?
Grammatical distinctions of quantity such as singular, dual, paucal and plural, and languages that leave number unmarked.
- T1 · Documented
Field record pending — no linked language specimens yet.
What linguistic research records.
- T2 · Interpreted
collections rarely encode whether size is meaningful or incidental
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- T3 · Proposed
One<T>, Few<T>, Many<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.
- explicit distinction between one, a small group and many
- unmarked reference where number is irrelevant
Interpreted
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- collections rarely encode whether size is meaningful or incidental
Proposed
Speculative constructs — not executable code.
- One<T>, Few<T>, Many<T>
Executed
Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.
No executable runtime yet. This capability has not been compiled to a deterministic machine.
- cardinality-aware types
- collection roles as annotations
- Grammatical number is not the same as counting; some languages leave it unmarked.
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.
Under review
Research source pending verification.
Research entry incomplete.
- Record version
- 0.1
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-21
- Controversy level
- low