How can we define the internal structure of classifier categories?
 

• How do central vs. peripheral (fuzzy-edged) members shape each category?
   

• Building a typological toolset with comparative labels that reflect emic information derived from the words they classify (e.g., [hide & tail] 𓄛)?
   

What do classifiers reveal about the lexical meaning of individual words?
 

• How does the range of classifiers assigned to a lexeme help reconstruct its emic meaning?
   

• Can classifier variation refine our understanding of semantic nuance?
   

How do classifiers form networks?
 

• What compatibility, incompatibility, and co-occurrence patterns emerge in each script or language’s classifier networks?
   

• How can network analysis methods (e.g., clustering) reveal communities and structures within classifier systems?
   

How do classifier systems diverge between different sources? 
 

• What differences appear across scripts (hieratic vs. hieroglyphic), chronological stages, geographic regions, and other metadata dimensions?
   

• How were classifiers assigned in parallel texts (e.g., different manuscripts of the Coffin Texts) and across textual genres?
   

What is the cultural significance of a classifier centrality?
 

• Which classifiers anchor prominent categories?
   

• Which classifiers remain marginal, and what does this distribution reveal about cultural salience? Which repeater and unique categories emerge in different scripts and classifier languages?
   

How do classifier categories evolve diachronically?
 

• How do categories emerge, stabilize, and decline over time?
   

• What distinguishes “successful” categories from those that cease to be used?
   

• How does the longue durée of texts (Pyramid Texts → Coffin Texts → Book of the Dead) reflect shifting knowledge organization?
  
   

What role do classifiers play in the grammar of verbs?
 

• How do verb classifiers encode valency and argument structure?
   

• What can they reveal about action and event categorization in ancient thought?
   

How do classifier systems compare cross-culturally?
 

• What parallels and divergences exist between Egyptian and Chinese classifiers?
   

• How can we document and analyze comparable categories, such as WATER (𓈗 / 水 / 氵), CHILD (𓀔 / 子), or HAND+STICK (𓂡 / 𓀜 / 殳 / 攵 / 攴) with a comparative toolset?