Grigory Sergeevich Maskaev is an independent writer and designer of conceptual systems. His work explores constructed languages, formal distinctions, creative reasoning, and methods for making hidden assumptions and causal structures visible. He developed Semar as an experimental overlay for analyzing knowledge, decisions, risks, mechanisms, and outcomes. He publishes literary and conceptual work in Russian.
This paper presents Semar, an experimental constructed metalanguage designed as an analytic overlay rather than as a replacement for a natural language. The content of an utterance remains in the base language, while Semar marks three additional dimensions: the semantic type of an element, its role within an event, and its relation to other elements. The system is built from seven primary states: Fact, Will, Play, Silence, Vulnerability, Depth, and Wonder. These states generate three independent 7 by 7 inventories: forty-nine semantic roots, forty-nine role suffixes, and forty-nine relational particles. A fixed event map can further arrange an analysis into participant, knowledge, goal, expectation, exclusion, risk, action, mechanism, and result. The paper explains the architecture of the system, distinguishes explanation from mechanism and sequence from causation, and demonstrates how Semar can expose hidden assumptions in apparently simple statements. Semar does not claim to establish truth merely by assigning a label. It records how a proposition is being treated and must therefore remain subject to evidence, counterexamples, and revision. The current version was developed over Russian; English content is used in this paper for demonstration while the canonical Semar codes are retained in Cyrillic.
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