IEML

IEML (Information Economy MetaLanguage) is a constructed language designed by French philosopher Pierre Lévy to manifest the expressive power of natural communication through computable semantics.

Introduction

The author considered IEML a realization of the Characteristica Universalis, proposed by Gottfried Leibniz. Otherwise, Lévy dimissed his project as an alphabet of human thought.

1. "We could have chosen other primitives and arrived at other concepts as results of the first multiplications. But my goal here is less a matter of demonstrating indisputable truths than of arranging a system of primitive notions pointing to all directions in the semantic space, and capable of generating a large number of notions derived from the first layers. Not only are languages conventional, but they cannot not be conventional."

Phonology

Morphology

e. "can" [U-T-E = virtual*substance-thing*attribute-unity] p. "object" [T-U-E = thing*substance-virtual*attribute-unity] ... i. "do" [A-T-E = actual*substance-thing*attribute] x. "body" [T-A-E = thing*substance-actual*attribute-unity]

color paradigm: Ce-Ci U:.e.-U:.i.-' "(shining) white" A:.e.-A:.i.-' "(ink) black"

Syntax

Resources

• https://intlekt.io/
• https://pierrelevyblog.com/my-research-in-a-nutshell/
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26339137231207634#table2-26339137231207634