Glossary & anti-glossary
Morphography, on/kun, packaging, MeasureP, Argument Transfer — and rejected terms.
Orientation
What graphs are
Honda’s unified model, Joyce’s morphographic principle, scalar opacity, okurigana.
Surface arity as packaging
Geometry + packaging; classifiers & VN-suru earn; Givón lean flagged.
Three diagnostics
Classifier geometries, Argument Transfer, opaque compounds — with ruby.
What you’ll find
- Morphography primers distilled from Honda 2019 and Joyce 2011.
- Packaging diagnostics that earn: Japanese classifiers (Oho 2019) and VN + light suru Argument Transfer (Grimshaw & Mester 1988).
- Worked examples with Japanese orthography and HTML
<ruby>readings. - A literature map with REAL / SPECULATIVE / OPEN tags and fetch-status honesty.
- Display notes for a later KanjiVG + KANJIDIC2 + ruby stack (orthogonal to analysis).
What you won’t find
- The ideographic myth — characters as idea-symbols without language.
- Kanji as syntactic heads (Merge, Agree, Case, Voice, Appl).
- A kanji↔doping joint field, or any materials analogy treated as literature.
- On/kun readings counted as linguistic arity.
- Bridge A revision from this desk.
Status · Dig #1. Literature map, primers, worked examples, site IA, and display planning written 2026-09-29 (PT). Product repo: crimsonflower420/Kanji-Morphology (private). Bridge unlocked — no doping claims.
Hard rule. Kanji ≠ syntax. Graphs are orthographic correlates of stems, counters, and VN stems. Packaging arguments cite classifiers and Argument Transfer — not stroke order, radicals-as-operators, or readings-as-arity.