# Flove · Paper 4 — Linguistics

> Synthesis of the flove view of language across its sub-fields:
> phonology, phonetics, semantics, morphosyntaxis, grammar,
> epistemology, psicolinguistics, pragmatics. Sources: `3Linguistics.pdf`,
> `Slides26.2.pdf` (slides §LINGUISTICS), `Frotis25.1.odt`,
> `ChacriKung25.1.odt`, `Floves25.4.odt`, `Ontologia25.10.odt`.

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## 1. Linguistics as the bridge between Inner and Outer

In flove, language is **the primary organ of the inner/outer
confluence**. The deck's recurring chain is:

> *I(NNER) ≈ OUTER ≈ OBJECT ≈ OTHERS ≈ OUTHER*

Each `≈` is a confluentist equivalence — they are not the same, but
they vary along the same bipolar axis. Language is the *operator* that
slides a perceiver along that chain. Where biology builds bodies,
linguistics builds **outhers**.

## 2. The linguistics stack

Flove orders the sub-fields by depth, from sound to society:

```
PHONOLOGY      ← outer systems, prosody, source/signal/time
PHONETICS      ← articulation, pitch, tempo
SEMANTICS      ← symbionimity, rate / relate
MORPHOSYNTAXIS ← rank / explain
GRAMMAR        ← label
EPISTEMOLOGY   ← hypergraph (knowledge structures)
PSICOLINGUISTICS
PRAGMATICS / SOCIOLOGY
```

The matching demos are **Vowy** (phonetics), **Linky** (semantics),
**Verby** (morphosyntaxis), **Wisy** (epistemology).

## 3. Prosody — the master organ of language

`Frotis25.1.odt` is the canonical source on prosody. The deck splits
prosody into three vectors aligned with physical dimensions:

| Dimension | Phonological correlate | Sub-feature | Audible as |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Space** | Proxemics | Stress | Loud |
| **Source** | Signal | Intonation | Pitch / Timbre / Articulation |
| **Time** | Chronemics | Rhythm | Tempo / Length |

Prosody is therefore literally **physics of voice**: the same
length/height/width/time skeleton from §Science returns here as the
human-vocal expression layer.

## 4. PROSODY × BIOLOGY — the systems matrix

The slides build a remarkable cross-table linking prosody to outer
biological systems:

| Fitness indicator | Outer system | Vector | Art form (instrumental) | Theatre form |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senxuality | Respiratory | Oral | Vocal | Sing → Sintactical → Story → Lyrical |
| LiFertility | Muscular | Facial | Instrumental | Fashion → Technical → Sculpture → Print |
| Qualntity | Skeletal | Kinesical | Vertical (dance) | Athletical → Theatre → Industry |
| Matrifoc. | Endocrine | Performative | Symbolical | Games → Semantical → Sport → Record |

Reading: art forms are **escalations of biological systems through
prosodic modulation**. Music is escalated breathing; dance is escalated
skeleton. This grounds the entire `311MUSIC/`, `312Dance/`, `313SPORT/`,
`314PERFORMING/`, `315MULTIMEDIA/` cluster of folders in a single
matrix.

## 5. Inner systems and outer systems — the parallel

The body has 11 systems (the deck counts them as 3(3×2)+1 → 19 vocal
counts and 13 facial → all `2^N`-friendly):

```
Inner         ↔        Outer
Integumentary ↔ (mirror in fashion)
Excretory     ↔ Oral / vocalisers
Respiratory   ↔ Speech / song
Muscular      ↔ Kinesics, dance
Skeletal      ↔ Posture, joints
Nervous       ↔ Linguistics proper
Endocrine     ↔ Performative ritual
Circulatory   ↔ Rhythm
Digestive     ↔ Reception (listening)
Reproductive  ↔ Symbolic generativity
Immune        ↔ Censorship, taboo
```

This is the deck's bridge between body and culture: language is the
**externalised reflection of inner systems**, with each inner system
generating a corresponding outer-cultural channel.

## 6. Symbionimity — flove's semantic axiom

The deck's term **symbionimity** (`symbion + onomy`) captures the
semantic claim: *meanings are bipolar pairs, not units*. A word's
meaning is its **relation to its complement**. Examples:

- `INNER ≈ OUTER` (so "inside" and "outside" are one symbion)
- `OBJECT ≈ OTHERS` (object and other-people share a relational pole)
- `MATRI ≈ PATRI` (matri-focal and patri-lateral as a symbion)

Operational rule: **never define a flove term in isolation; always cite
its symbion**. This is enforced in the demos' UI patterns (every
question asks for both poles).

## 7. Epistemology as Hypergraph

The `33EPISTEMOLOGY/` folder shows three artefacts: `paper.png`,
`slides.png`, `table.png` — the same content in three modalities. This
*is* flove's epistemological method:

- **Truth is hyper-graphical.** A claim is a node connected to its
  bipolar pair, its analogies in other fields, its diagrams, its
  poems.
- **Multimodal redundancy is rigour.** A single claim expressed only
  in prose is under-evidenced; once it has a diagram, a song, a table
  *and* a paper, it counts.
- **Knowledge graph topology**: each lemma has at minimum (paper,
  slide, table, poem). The current folder `context/flove/theory/`
  literally instantiates this requirement.

## 8. Pragmatics — the social register

At the pragmatic / sociolinguistic edge, the deck flags:

- Naughty / Outher / Red — fragments suggest a **valuation register**
  for social bonding ("we are mates because we are both *naughty*").
- **LAW 1 → INSTITUTION 1 → CULTURE → SOCIETY → OUTHERS** as the
  zoom-out chain.
- **Outhers** = the linguistic cousin of *outers*: the others-as-system
  that language brings into being.

This connects language to the psicosocial paper.

## 9. ChacriKung — embodied phonology

`ChacriKung25.1.odt` is the embodied counterpart of Frotis: it ties
**chakras + kung-fu energy points** to phonological articulation
positions. Treat it as the dance/martial-arts version of the prosody
matrix.

## 10. One-line operational rule

> **Every flove word is a bipolar pair. To use a term correctly, name
> its symbion.** When you don't know the symbion, the term is not yet
> well-defined and you should withhold it.

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## Cross-references for AI consultations

When a user query touches **language, prosody, naming, semantics,
grammar, vocabulary design, terminology, multimodality, knowledge
graph**, this paper is the right one. Pair with:

- `papers/2_biology.md` (inner systems mirror).
- `papers/4_psicosocial.md` (pragmatics extension).
- `tables/FloveTables25.12.ods` (sheets on Prosody × Systems).
- `slides/Slides26.2.txt` lines 4500–6500 for diagrams.
