Modules

Goals

These components should aim to:

• A full logical language can be assembled wholly or partly from existing modules.

Innovators can focus on developing a new module rather than a whole language.

• Enumerate the design space of Logical Languages.

  Provide alternate modules for different design choices.

• Describe modules' strengths, weaknesses, and compatibility.

  Do not apply value judgements or advocate for any particular option.

• Be systematic and well documented.

  A method or a choice without documented justification will be lost.

• Provide software for working with these components.

Modular Language Architecture

This section will explore how a language could be broken down into modules.

Module Breakdown

Phonology

Different sets of phonemes which can be used.

Phonotactics

Different rules for how a phonology can be assembled into words.

Writing System

Structure, Syntax, and Semantics

Vocabulary

• Provides set of non-core/non-syntactic/non-structural words with defined meanings
• Not attached to specific phonological forms
• Different vocabulary module instances could incorporate different philosophies

• e.g. world view for constructing composites:

  Have a word for 'tooth', or have a compound like 'mouth-stone'?

Module Hierarchy

• Morphology
  • Written
    • Writing System
  • Verbal
    • Phonotactics
      • Phonology
• Vocabulary
• Structure, syntax, semantics