# Batch 249 Process Log - Rule 207 Low-Coverage Object Reference Lexical Expansion

Date: 2026-07-08
Operator: claude-main
Status: accepted

## Starting State

- Authoritative corpus state before banking:
  - accepted: 11,586
  - revised: 911
  - verified total: 12,497 / 20,000
  - Kuku words: 107,192
  - last completed batch: batch-248 / Rule 206
- Handoff source: `reports/KUKU-YALANJI-CORPUS-OPERATOR-GUIDE.md`, section 12.
- Rule 207 mandate: return to a fresh bounded lexical expansion after Rule 206, while keeping Rules 149-206 traps closed.

## Construction Choice

Rule 207 uses already sourced bare deictic/reference noun frames:

1. `TARGET yaluy.` = The TARGET is here.
2. `TARGET yinyay.` = The TARGET is there.
3. `Yinya TARGET yinyay.` = That TARGET is there.
4. `TARGET yinya yinyay.` = That TARGET is there.
5. `Yinya TARGET yaluy.` = That TARGET is here.

Grammar support reread:

- Patz §3.7: Kuku Yalanji has demonstrative pronouns and demonstrative location words, including Yalanji `yinya` "that/those", `yaluy` "here", and `yinyay` "there".
- Patz §3.7: demonstrative pronouns imply singular or plural by context and may refer to animate or inanimate beings.
- Patz §3.7: demonstrative pronouns can replace or co-occur with a noun; Patz gives `yinya karrkay/karrkay yinya` "that child".
- Patz §3.7: local demonstratives behave as location words; this batch uses only the uninflected bare local forms already accepted in prior corpus rules.

## Source-Checked Target Nouns

Final targets are all exact dictionary headwords:

- `jidi` noun, "torch"; definition: paperbark tree bark torch. Rule 207 uses only the object label "torch"; no bark/source/use/lighting claim.
- `jundi` noun, "pumice stone"; definition: pumice stone, carborundum stone. Uses only "pumice stone"; no rubbing/scraping/use claim.
- `dikarra` noun, "war spear"; definition notes a stingray barb. Uses only "war spear"; no barb/source/use/fighting/sickness/magic claim.
- `yirrmba` noun, "many-pronged fish spear"; object label only; no fishing/spearing/catching/use claim.
- `balur` noun, "spear thrower"; duplicate empty dictionary entry noted, but the defined noun is source-backed. Object label only; no throwing/use claim.
- `kimil` noun, "stick"; dictionary also gives sapling, post, walking stick, horn. Rule 207 selects only "stick"; no walking/horn/source/use/impact claim.
- `binan` noun, "rudder"; definition says "rudder, for steering". Rule 207 uses only "rudder"; no steering/boat-motion/use claim.
- `wuju` noun, "sponge"; definition says grass sponge used for honey/soup. Rule 207 uses only "sponge"; no grass-source/food/eating/soup/honey/use claim.
- `jungkalu` noun, "billycan"; post-contact vessel. Rule 207 uses only "billycan"; no cooking/water/container-use claim.
- `kaban` noun, "paper, book"; Rule 207 selects "paper"; no reading/writing/book-use claim.

## Rejected / Deferred Candidates

- `dawarr`, `dambal`, `bilangkurr`, `birungubay`, and `jinil` were rejected for this pass because exact `yaluy`/`yinyay` surfaces already exist in earlier accepted batches.
- `yulal` was rejected after final candidate testing because `Yulal yaluy.` and `Yulal yinyay.` already exist in batches 225 and 226.
- `durray` was rejected after final candidate testing because `Durray yaluy.` and `Durray yinyay.` already exist in batches 231 and 232.
- `bikirr` and `wukurr` were rejected because no exact source-backed dictionary headword was found in `dictionary.yaml`.
- `jindal` was rejected because it is homophonous with the transitive verb "bite".
- `bulin`, `baybu`, `naybu`, `wuybu`, and similar loan forms were not used.
- `bangkal`, `yikari`, `nambar`, `badur`, `dubal`, and similar source/use/ceremony/death/food-heavy items were avoided for this simple reference pass.

## Duplicate Preflight

Exact duplicate preflight over all 50 planned Kuku surfaces returned no accepted, revised, or under-review collisions after replacing `yulal` and `durray` with `kaban`.

The clean final target set was:

`jidi`, `jundi`, `dikarra`, `yirrmba`, `balur`, `kimil`, `binan`, `wuju`, `jungkalu`, `kaban`.

## Five-Lens Review Commitments

- Morphology: all targets remain bare absolutive citation nouns; no case, possessive, comitative, locative, instrumental, number, derivation, compounding, reduplication, or target suffixing.
- Lexicon: each row uses only the selected object label; no source, manufacture, material, use, action, food, ceremony, illness, magic, homograph, or post-contact drift is imported.
- Syntax: only the five sourced deictic/reference frames above are used.
- Fidelity: English remains literal reference/location prose: "The X is here/there" and "That X is here/there".
- Register: rows are plain elicitation-style reference sentences, not narratives, procedural descriptions, repairs, travel reports, hunting/fishing reports, food events, or ownership claims.

## Expected Count Movement

- Before close: 12,497 verified sentences.
- After close: 12,547 verified sentences.
- Remaining after close: 7,453.
- Kuku-word movement: +130, because all 50 rows use one-token target nouns plus one or two one-token demonstratives/location words.
- Close evidence: 50 accepted rows, 250 five-lens review passes, 27 lessons, 13 lexeme/source-log rows, lint GREEN, export refreshed to 10,511 / 1,025 / 1,011.
