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  "abstract": "The enactive thesis that language is an interaction protocol which generates, rather than describes, social reality is widely cited but rarely tested, because no operational specification of the thesis exists. This gap blocks both a research programme — nobody can say which simulation outcome would confirm or refute the thesis — and an engineering goal, namely autonomous agents that bootstrap shared meaning without a pre-installed world model. We convert the thesis into a design specification by defining a minimal grammar of coordination: a finite inventory of form-meaning constructions, an alignment update rule, and a norm-codification threshold, implemented as the only communicational endowment of agents that share no prior ontology. We derive analytical predictions for four measurable outputs: a lexicon-sufficiency bound L ≥ S¹/m giving 22 constructions for 10⁴ situation types at message length 3; a normative-complexity ceiling of 66 coordination patterns for a 50-agent community, an 18.6-fold compression over unstructured pairwise norms; a perturbation law under which a 30% bot-message fraction reduces the stable shared lexicon from 52.8 to 39.0 constructions, a 26.1% drop; and a spectrum-retention result showing that a strict threshold discards 95.02% of pairwise coordination information, a 20.1-fold loss relative to spectrum-based measurement. All quantities are computed from stated assumptions, not simulated. The derivations yield falsifiable predictions that distinguish grammar variants, specify the simulation study that would test them, and give trust-and-safety analysts a spectrum-based rather than threshold-based target for measuring coordination in live platforms.",
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