Particle-Origin Primitives A ULD/UNS Confinement-Geometry Account of Free Modifiers and Indo-European Bound

This article develops a single internal claim that recurs across the Morphodynamics program: the
primitive inventory that drives grammatical evolution is particle-stratified. Free or weakly bound
discourse / clausal modifiers and certain “primitive” bound exponents (illustrated by IndoEuropean suffixal atoms such as -s, -t, and -m̥ ) are not clausal or syntactic primitives. They are
particle-origin elements whose apparent clausal behavior emerges from confinement geometry.
The analysis is written entirely in the native morphodynamic formalism: a ghost-slot (“well”) is a
directed confinement geometry with (i) a state inventory V, (ii) a licensed transition set E, (iii)
depth/weight w, and (iv) a distributional wavefunction ψ that supports canonical wave-dynamic
outcomes (drift, diffusion, fusion, absorption, elimination, collapse). Within this geometry,
particle material occupies the high-optionality surface and transitional channels, and may
stabilize into bound morphology via absorption and fusion. The paper formalizes particle-origin
diagnostics with theorem-style statements (including a Particle Origin Lemma for -s and its
extension to the compact suffix set), supplies well-internal predictions, and provides a battery of
schematic but operational figures, tables, and adjudication templates that can be populated with
the manuscript’s measurement program.