The grounded framework (the paper's body)
The single consolidated paper builds its analytic apparatus from MW's own data, before any external theory. This page tours that body; the two companion pages cover the triangulation against three external frameworks and the framework appendices.
📄 Canonical paper: PAPER.md in MWS docs-pass (§3–§6 are the body summarised here).
Trust Block
- Evidence: canonical paper in
sanskrit-lexicon/MWSdocs-passand linked atlas tools. - Limitations: tour page only; the canonical paper text and submission package live outside this repo.
- Validation: checked by
npm run build; paper-final claims should be reviewed in the canonical MWS paper before citation. - Owner repo:
csl-atlas. - Next use: use this paper tour as orientation, then inspect the linked atlas tools and source-linked evidence.
Five core constructs
- Block — a discriminable structural component (18 in MW).
- Slot — an ordered position within an entry (slot architecture, not free-form).
- Profile — the block-set characteristic of an article type (14 in MW).
- Hedge — a block that modifies the entry's evidentiary status (
<ls>L.</ls>is MW's singular hedge). - Infrastructure — blocks supporting processability, not content (F17 machine annotation, F18 correction records).
Central thesis: block economy
MW reuses a small ~6-block kernel (F01, F02, F04, F10, F12, F17) across 286,561 entries, with type-driven enrichments added sparingly — block economy.
Audit note. A cross-dictionary check shows the economy shape (small modal kernel + long tail) is common across the structured-bilingual CDSL dictionaries, not unique to MW (modal blocks/entry: MW 5, PWG 4, PWK 3, AP 2, WIL 3, Benfey 3, Cappeller 3). This should not be reduced to a simple "single-volume vs multi-volume" claim: PWG, PWK, SKD, and VCP are all seven-volume works, yet PWG is tagged-citation dense, PWK is compacted, and SKD/VCP are genre-bound prose lexica. See PAPER.md §9.3 and the all-dictionary coverage tool.
See also
Tour page. Canonical text: PAPER.md.