Cultural Ontology Profile Contract

This is the human-facing schema receipt for weksa.cultural_ontology_profile.v0, the CultCache document family that stores reviewed cultural ontology used during utterance lowering.

Executable schema code does not exist yet. When it does, it must reconcile with this receipt, the meta-analysis paper, and the profiles under data/target-language-ontology/.

Authority

A cultural ontology profile owns the realization lens for a target speech community, dialect, register, regional overlay, ritual register, historical period, or contact-language repertoire.

It owns:

salience axes the lowerer must inspect
social-indexical meanings attached to forms
linguistic affordances available to a dialect or register
activation gates and forbidden use contexts
evidence, reviewer status, uncertainty, and source hashes
trace requirements for lowering audits

It does not own:

source meaning
speaker identity
final wording without an interlingua packet
unreviewed stereotypes
Qdrant nearest-neighbor results as accepted truth
renderer-specific surface tricks

State Shape

The profile is typed state whose nested fields are also typed state. Lists of strings may be used only as summaries or indexes; accepted affordance authority lives in feature records.

schema: weksa.cultural_ontology_profile.v0
profile_id:
kind: base_language | dialect | sociolect | regional_overlay |
      institutional_register | religious_overlay | contact_language_overlay |
      historical_period_profile | community_of_practice
status: draft | draft_guarded | reviewed | deprecated

language:
  code:
  locale:
  script:
  variety_label:
  endonyms: []
  exonyms: []

parent_profiles: []

community:
  regions: []
  speech_community:
  historical_context:
  identity_authority:
  consent_notes:

activation:
  allowed_when: []
  forbidden_when: []
  required_confidence: exploratory | provisional | reviewed
  reviewer_required_when: []

salience_axes:
  <axis_id>:
    axis_id:
    domain: temporality_aspect | stance | social_relation |
            identity_indexing | sacred_or_ritual_context | address |
            modality | evidentiality | affect | politeness
    description:
    relevant_distinctions:
      - distinction_id:
        label:
        meaning:
        lowering_questions: []
        required_when: []
        forbidden_when: []
        evidence_refs: []

linguistic_affordances:
  grammar_features: []
  phonology_features: []
  lexicon_features: []
  discourse_patterns: []
  orthography_features: []
  code_switching:
    allowed:
    constraints: []
    patterns: []

Affordance Feature Records

Every affordance list above contains typed feature records. Feature IDs should be stable inside a profile and reusable in lowering traces.

feature_id:
label:
status: draft | reviewed | deprecated
domain:
  layer: grammar | phonology | lexicon | discourse | orthography | code_switching
  category:
  subcategory:
description:
realization:
  function:
  surface_strategy:
  examples: []
activation:
  allowed_when: []
  forbidden_when: []
  requires_profile_authority:
  minimum_density:
  maximum_density:
constraints:
  grammar_contexts: []
  phonological_contexts: []
  register_contexts: []
  speaker_contexts: []
  collocation_limits: []
  incompatibilities: []
indexicality:
  social_meanings: []
  in_group_meanings: []
  out_group_risks: []
  stereotypes_to_avoid: []
evidence:
  source_refs: []
  qdrant_source_ids: []
  cached_source_refs: []
  source_hashes: []
  reviewer_refs: []
  confidence: low | medium | high
uncertainty:
  open_questions: []
  known_limits: []
trace:
  trace_label:
  must_report_when_used:
  must_report_when_rejected:

Specialized feature records add fields rather than replacing the common record:

grammar_feature:
  feature_id:
  domain:
    layer: grammar
    category: tense_aspect_modality | negation | agreement | pronoun |
              word_order | subordination | discourse_particle
  formal_conditions:
    syntactic_environment: []
    semantic_inputs: []
    required_interlingua_fields: []
  lowering_effect:
    adds_meaning:
    preserves_meaning:
    changes_register:
    can_be_omitted_when: []

phonology_feature:
  feature_id:
  domain:
    layer: phonology
    category: vowel_shift | consonant_realization | prosody | rhythm |
              stress | intonation
  realization:
    ipa_hint:
    orthography_should_change:
    speech_synthesis_controls: []
  constraints:
    lexical_sets: []
    environments: []
    density_safe_for_text:

lexicon_feature:
  feature_id:
  domain:
    layer: lexicon
    category: regional_lexeme | loanword | calque | taboo | honorific |
              kinship | ritual_term | technical_term
  lexical_items:
    - form:
      gloss:
      sense:
      register:
      allowed_speaker_standing:
      forbidden_senses: []
      collocations: []

discourse_pattern:
  pattern_id:
  domain:
    layer: discourse
    category: stance_marker | turn_taking | address_sequence |
              narrative_frame | ritual_formula | humor | emphasis
  interactional_function:
  sequence_shape: []
  adjacency_constraints: []

orthography_feature:
  feature_id:
  domain:
    layer: orthography
    category: spelling_variant | script_choice | punctuation |
              transliteration | eye_dialect_guard
  allowed_surface_forms: []
  forbidden_surface_forms: []
  renderer_notes:

code_switching_pattern:
  pattern_id:
  domain:
    layer: code_switching
    category: lexical_insertion | tag_switch | alternation |
              quotation | ritual_formula | metalinguistic
  languages: []
  matrix_language:
  embedded_language:
  switch_sites: []
  pragmatic_functions: []
  constraints:
    requires_bilingual_speaker:
    requires_community_context:
    forbidden_when: []

Lowering Trace Contract

A lowered utterance trace should cite the nested state that actually affected the line:

cultural_ontology_trace:
  activated_profiles: []
  activated_axes:
    - axis_id:
      distinctions_used: []
      distinctions_rejected: []
  activated_affordances:
    - profile_id:
      layer:
      feature_id:
      density:
      reason:
      evidence_refs: []
  rejected_affordances:
    - profile_id:
      layer:
      feature_id:
      reason:
  reviewer_required:
  uncertainty: []

Storage

Recommended CultCache paths:

.weksa/cultural-ontology/{profileId}.cc
.weksa/cultural-ontology/{baseProfileId}/overlays/{overlayId}.cc
.weksa/cultural-ontology/catalogs/{catalogId}.cc
.weksa/cultural-ontology/evidence-bundles/{bundleId}.cc

Qdrant may store chunks, vectors, and payload filters for retrieval. It does not own profile acceptance, feature activation, or renderer authority.

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