AI and Syntactic Sovereignty

This theoretical paper introduces the concept of Syntactic Sovereignty, a structural framework for understanding how authority is produced in artificial language systems. Drawing on linguistics, epistemology, and critical theory, the paper argues that in post-human contexts, epistemic legitimacy no longer relies on truth, intention, or subjectivity, but on the formal properties of language—its syntax, modality, and institutional simulation. The work synthesizes prior developments on synthetic authority and power grammars to propose a general theory: in algorithmic discourse, structure governs. This is a foundational contribution to the fields of AI philosophy, computational linguistics, and post-human epistemology.Canonical DOI: This version is mirrored from Zenodo for citation redundancy. Original publication: [DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15519614]<br>