Ruben Adjutiv: A Three by Three Grid

Ruben Adjutiv: I think this is not the same quite as a semantic map, but it has some properties of a semantic map that are useful for conlangers to think about. So across the top, we have propositional acts. Is it referring? Is it modifying or is it predicating? Yeah, so that was, I called them propositional acts for the, because that's the term that the philosopher John Searle introduced in a book he wrote back in 1969. And that's like one type of what I'm now calling information packaging,. It's basically everywhere in grammar.