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How is the time alive in language? 2014
How is the time alive in language?
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When one first hear the existence of time in language, he may doubt its certainty. But I have intuitively believe it since I learned the ancient Chinese inscription on bone ad tortoise shell (in Chinese called Jiaguwen). In my early 20s, I met with the book of Chinese modern linguists, WANG Guowei, this belief changed the conviction. His lifework book Guantangjilin is hard to read till now. But some papers in it are always inspires me by his deep and vast insight to character, language and history of ancient China. He also wrote fine criticism on Chinese pre-modern poem Ci. The title is Renjian Cihua. The book is one of my favourite books of Chinese literature. People sometimes say that he was the highest genius after Song Dynasty, 1,000 years. In 2003 I wrote a tiny paper hinted by WANG's paper. It was the first paper for me that I directly faced the time inherent in inscription using Jiaguwen's update linguistic results. The title is " On Time Property Inherent in Characters".
- On Time Property Inherent in Characters / 28 March 2003
2.
In summer 2003, I stayed at Hakuba, Nagano for a while for writing over the paper that was intended to present a symposium at Nara in winter. The paper was taking up the structure of written language that was dealt with the relation between time and grammar. But I did not solve the question on with what shape language exists in the language world. What shape has language and at where space does language exist or float? The theme on space was hard to deal at that time. I only concentrated to the shape in space. At 28 August I was fatigued to think and went for a stroll outside the inn putting up. The place was at the mountain side of the Hakuba Range and there was only one convenience store, where I walked in the shop and saw one advertisement of electric pocket dictionary. I returned having this advert to the inn and read its sentences. At the very time I found the shape of language I sought was sphere that was inherited time in it, also having grammatical functions. The paper's title was named to " Quantum Theory for Language" by the shape of language. This was a really product of clear and fine atmosphere of Hakuba with a distant view of the North Alps of Japan.
- Quantum Theory for Language / 15 January 2004
3.
From 2004 to 2008 I wrote some papers on inscription and language. But I was not satisfied inwardly for the style of intuitive approach to language. I wanted to write more simple and clear expression. For being realised of my wish, I definitely needed to use mathematical tools. I returned to my 20s days' reading of Bourbaki that was desperately difficult for may ability. I again gradually read mathematical books and journals for seeking useful source of my hope to converting to language study. A certain results that came to my papers with satisfaction was appeared in 2008 by the papers titled Complex Manifold Deformation Theory.
- Complex Manifold Deformation Theory / 2008-2009
Above all, the first paper in this group, I first defined the concept, distance by complex manifold.
- Distance of Word / 30 November 2008
The concept of distance was one of the most important themes on language, so I at early times wrote the intuitive paper, "Distance Theory".
- Distance Theory / 5 May 2004
At the fifth paper of Complex Manifold Deformation Theory, I again challenged the hard theme of the time in language, titled to " Time of Word".
- Time of Word / 1 January 2009
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The definition of space in which language exists is one hard target for me to write satisfactory. A fixed results came to me at the papers group titles Symplectic Language Theory in 2009.
- Symplectic Language Theory / 2009
In the group, a paper focused on mirror phase on language became one peak for my writing.
- Homological Mirror Symmetry Conjecture by KONTSEVICH / 26 April 2009
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Related with the shape of language, quantization and discreteness on language was the urgent themes for the further step of studying the total image of language I was pursuing. Floer Homology Language was the one milestone for me to overcome to the next stage.
- Floer Homology Language / 2009
In this group, the eighth paper was dealt with the quantization and discreteness of language.
- Discreteness of Language / 19 July 2009
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What situation does the time in language have? This question exists in my mind at the early days when I wrote the paper "On Time Property Inherent in Characters". The first step to solution was described at the paper " Prague Theory". The group of Prague Theory was written due to dedicate to Prague, The Linguistic Circle of Prague and Sergej Karcevskij with the memory of my teacher CHINO Eiichi.
- Prague Theory / 2 October 2004
In this paper, Chinese Character /kun/, that meaning is difficult in English, was used for the eternity of loop time. This loop time was also appeared in the paper " On Time Property Inherent in Characters". But Prague Theory shows more direct and compact by growing tree and its obstructive enclosing fence. This intuitive image was more clearly described at the paper " Word as Infinite Loop Time " at Infinite Loop Space Language in 2012.
- Word as Infinite Loop Space / 6 December 2012
In this paper, time in language is clearly connected with dimension of algebraic group saying as the next. Word has dimension that belongs to algebraic K group.
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The relation between time and dimension was entered on a new phase at the learning of algebraic geometry, especially of arithmetic geometry. Arithmetic Geometry Language, abbreviated to AGL, was the starting papers for me to arithmetic method.
- Arithmetic Geometry Language (AGL) / 2013
From these four papers, I concisely extracted the next three conjectures.
- Dimension Decrease Conjecture
- Synthesis Conjecture
- Reversion Conjecture
At these conjectures, time inherent in language is in the basis of describing dimension, synthesis and reversion. The process of leading to the conjectures is over viewing the next.
- Three Conjectures for Dimension, Synthesis and Reversion with Root and Supplement / 19 November 2014
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Acknowledgement
Time inherent in language is a fantastic but as hard to pursue for me still now. I would examine this theme further more and more, probably till the end of my research life. Now all the thanks are going to The Linguistic Circle of Prague and especially its member Sergej Karcevskij, with my teacher CHINO Eiichi who taught me their precise information from his long study at Prague in 1960s.
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For CHINO Eiichi
Golden Prague
C also died early, who had taught me Russian and linguistics. He loved
the old city that had the beautiful towers and bridges.
In C's many works there was the essay "The Moon of Carpathians". He wrote
that the conference was over, departed at Kiev, saw the moon and
churches over the Carpathian Mountains, impetuously went to the west,
passed Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, and at last reached "Golden Prague".
Prague, it was his youth itself.
Now I cannot hear his voice telling the various anecdotes on languages,
of which he freely had commanded. By the short heading, a newspaper
reported his death, naming as "the genius of linguistics". - 9 October 2014 - Coffee shop named California If C live, he also may ask me, "What are you researching now?" And I also will answer him as same as ever ."I have pursued universals, never done facts, without repenting."
Oh C, if you live, will we also talk on language? At the table facing each other under the low ceiling of the shop going up the steep stairs. The name of the shop is California.
For the memory of our daily forgetful life, its never miserable though poor all over, I will write down our delight. - 27 October 2014 -
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Ode to Kanda"I need not more wander the book shop streets." / From Tale, Print, 2012This tale was written by TANAKA Akio, pen-named LI Koh in autumn 2012 for remembering the poor but brilliant youth time of myself. This is one of my favourite phrases in this tale.The book shop streets described in the tale is Kanda, Tokyo, which is located in the central Tokyo, where I frequently walked seeking the old Chinese classic books for the study from Oriental way of linguistics. In late 1960s, the streetcars were surely running in the old fashioned streets of Kanda, now perfectly changed to the subway streets. From Print 2012, Chapter 10もはや本屋街をさまようことはない。I need not more wander the book shop streets. 対象は私のうちにある。The object exists in my mind. 私はただこの運河をながめていればいい。I would better watch the canal. 遍歴は終わった。Wandering is over now. たぶん永遠にマイスターにはなれないだろうが、みずからの小さな仕事場で、日が落ちるまで作業をすればいい。Perhaps I would not become meister forever. In my narrow working place, I 'd better do my work till sunset. すると仕事場の窓辺を聖者が通って行く。 So out of the window by the working place, the saint passes by. かつてそんなロシアの民話を読んだ。I ever read the Russian folk tale like that. 秋の日ぐれは早い。The Autumn evening is fast. 路面電車のヘッドランプがまぶしいくらいだ。The headlight of streetcar is dazzling. 黄褐色の窓に少ない乗客が照らし出され、古本屋街の方へ消えて行った。In the yellow-lighten window the passengers are picked out by the light. The car disappeared to the book streets. 駅の売店がにぎやかな橙の光に包まれている。The station shop is also lighted up by the yard's busy orange light.
- 40 years passed from I read WANG Guowei / 16 November 2013
- Prague in 1920s, The Linguistic Circle of Prague and Sergej Karcevskij's paper "Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique" / Print, 2012
Tokyo
26 November 2014
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Glitter of youth through philosophy and mathematics in1970s / 2015
Glitter of youth through philosophy and mathematics in1970s
TANAKA Akio
In 1970s or in my age 20s there surely exists glitter of youth in my life, now I remember.
In those days, in Japan many fabulous magazines were successively published. Episteme, Toshi（City）、Chugoku（China) and the likes. Especially I loved reading Episteme which had printed many philosophical or philological articles as the form of special issues concentrated important philosopher, thinker and writer. The chief editor of Episteme was NAKANO Mikitaka（1943-2007), probably one of the best editors in the latter half of the 20th century in Japan. The most impressive number was Ludwig Wittgenstein（1889-1951）, probably in 1977. Also influenced from the issue of Kurt Godel（1906-1978）who gave me the possibility of set theory.
In my life, Wittgenstein gave the big influence for thinking and writing style, never entering or approaching his essential philosophical themes. After millennium year when I started the regular writing on language universals, my writing style was resembling in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. My paper written in 2003, Quantum Theory for Language shows a very imitative style to him. This tendency kept on for some time till I changed to adopt algebraic method for more clear description to the themes.
1970s was a relatively calm times after those university’s revolution in the late 1960s in which I also compellingly rolled in. In those days I almost had been wandering between library and old book shops aiming my life-time true themes cowardly avoiding the turmoil of university and towns. Blaise Pascal（1623-1662）’s Pansees was my favourite one. One day at Kanda’s Taiwan Chinese book shop Kaifu Shoten, I bought WANG Guowei（1877-1927）’s Guantangjilin that opened the new frontier for classical Chinese philology mainly streamed by “Small Study”, traditional exegetics in China. Influenced WANG Guowei I wrote a paper titled On Time Property Inherent in Characters, 2003 by which I began the latter start of language study.
In 1970s, I had cherished a dream in which I wanted to use mathematical description and get the essential of language. But I had not any ability to proceed the study for it while I read at random several mathematical books. One day I found and bought the amount Nicolas Bourbaki（1935-）’s text books at old book shop in Kanda, Tokyo. They were hard to keep reading for my talent in those days. After all, the books were put aside the desk. The remaining in my mind was adoration to Bourbaki and their brilliant achievement. My return to Bourbaki was long after in 1990s when I again tried the pursuit of language having a clear vision to study language universals according to the Linguistic Circle of Prague, especially aiming to resolve the supposition presented by Sergej Karcevskij（1884-1955).
Turning round the past days, my way was always narrow and winding road. But it keeps till now not breaking off in any situations. The way was finely glittering in my youth days despite under the cloudy sky. Probably I have kept happily walking till now being assisted by many people especially at the field of language, mathematics and relevant studies.
At random now I remember the dear names from whom I never cannot hear their voices.
HASEGAWA Hiroshi, CHEN Donghai Chinese language,
KAJIMURA Hideki, CHO Shokichi Korean language,
Natary Muravijowa Russian language,
ONO Shinobu Chinese literature,
MIIYAZAKI Kenzo, FURUTA Hiromu, KONDO Tadayoshi Japanese literature,
ANDO Tsuguo French poem,
SAEKI Shoichi Haiku,
IKEDA Hiroshi Japanese classical drama,
SAITO Kohei sculpture,
YAMAGISHI Tokuhei bibliography,
NISHI Junzo Chinese philosophy,
KAWASAKI Tsuneyuki Buddhism,
CHINO Eiichi Russian language, the Linguistic Circle of Prague. At last dear friend of high school days
KANEKO Yutaka mathematics and our youth.
Tokyo
6 March 2015
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Writing Style of the Papers 2013 on Language Study 2014
Writing Style of the Papers 2013 on Language Study
From 2013 I changed a little on the writing style of papers. I have always thought on the several concepts for language universals and their surroundings. Synthesis of old meaning and new meaning is one of the most important themes. Dimension of language is also a big theme for long time from my beginning of the study.
Recently I frequently use the web site, webnode, in which the top page almost has “News” column that is very convenient to write tiny memo-like ideas I have always been thinking. Ending the memo and uploading the site, writing date and time are inevitably mentioned. It is very useful for me because I always need the date of thinking the theme.
So I made some sites by the webnode. But after using for the facing work they are almost deleted for cleaning the history of my task. I do not want remaining the footprints of my trifling works. At the result my remaining webnode site is only one, that is named SRFLNote in which there are some trivial notes on the study now.
Several papers written by the webnode “News” column are shown at this site.
For this writing situation , “Dimension Decrease Conjecture”, “Conjecture for synthesis of meaning in word”and “Conjecture for reversion of language” have peculiar style from the ordinary papers.
From now on, what this style will be kept on is uncertain for me, but I think that adequate themes by this style will be remained, for example, on the field of the hierarchy of language related with dimension.
If the time exists some for me, I will write more several papers on the important themes using mathematical notations to the unknown world of language hereinafter.
References
1. webnode
HILLSSOUTHROAD / 2013 (Archive)
2. Papers
“Dimension Decrease Conjecture” / 2013
“Conjecture for synthesis of meaning in word” / 2013
“Conjecture for reversion of language” / 2013
Tokyo
1 May 2014Sekinan Research Field of Language
Thursday, 2 April 2026
The days when I was thinking on Energy Distance Theory 2014
The days when I was thinking on Energy Distance Theory
q.v. Energy and Distance in Language / 31 August 2008
TANAKA Akio
1.
Around 2008, I was thinking on energy in language related with distance in language. Distance is one of the kernel themes of my study of language universals in those days. In simply saying, distance is the result of movement and for movement there must inevitably needs energy. So I had thought that if language have distance, there must be energy or its alike in language that is supposed in mathematical models. But in my ability in 2008, I could not develop the deep and wide range of language from the theme, energy and distance. So Energy Distance Theory was still now unfinished.
- Energy and Distance
- Heat and Diffusion
- Energy and Functional
- Finsler Manifold and Distance
- Word and Meaning Minimum
- Geometry of Word
2.
In another approach of my study on language universals, Edward Sapir's Language, 1921 was one of my favourite books between 1970s and early 1980s. In his book, the most fantastic concept for me was Drift, that indicated the vast movement of language system itself. I ever gave brief account on it.
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Edward Sapir's Language, 1921 showed me the dynamism of language proposing the concept, drift.
Drift shows us the macro phase of natural language and I was hinted by Sapir's this concept and proposed the micro phase of natural language. The paper "Quantum Theory for Language" is my first total proposal paper describing the natural language's model.
Reference
Substantiality Dedicated SAPIR Edward / 27 February 2005
Tokyo
5 September 2014
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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3.
My language study started from the reading of Old China's Qing dynasty's huge linguistic inheritance, "Xiaoxue", in English Small Study , that is contrary to the name, the most basic and difficult study of classical texts of old China. I particularly loved the books written by WANG Guowei and WANG Yinzhi and DUAN Yucai.
The main book list to which I referred in those days between the age 20s and 40s are shown at the next.
Especially I was enchanted with WANG Guowei's work, whose selected papers' title wasGuantangjilin. For him I wrote a short essay as below.
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TANAKA Akio
Guantangjilin is the selection of works by WANG Guowei, which contents contains vast area of history, literature and linguistics. Some people say that his works is a thousand-year peak from Song era’s philosopher SHU Xi. I bought his book at Haifeng shudian, Kanda, Tokyo in my mid 20s. The date of colophon is February 1973, publisher is Zhonghua shuju Xianggang fenju.
Probably I bought it in 1973 or 1974. In those days I frequently went Haifeng shudian bookshop for buying Chinese classics, mainly Qing Dynasty’s linguistic works that is called ” Xiaoxue”, Small study at China. Guantangjilin is a very difficult book to understand by my poor study result.
His study era is from Yin Dynasty to Qing Dynasty some 2,500 years of Chinese literary history. At his vast works I was especially charmed in Qing Dynasty’s ancient Chinese hieroglyphic characters, Jiaguwenzi by Chinese. After 40 years, in 2003 I wrote a small paper on language universals through this ancient Chinese hieroglyphic characters at the view point of written language.
The title is On Time Property inherent in Characters. From at that time 10 years passed by. Now I am still learning on language universals but its style is far apart from the days 2003 or 1973. Ambiguity of approach by traditional linguistics is not for my part. I dare challenge to a new frontier of description for language study using mathematics or algebraic geometry.
Refer to the next.
- On Time Property Inherent in Characters 2003
- From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi-Distance 2012
- Half farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague 2013
Tokyo 16 November 2013
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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After all, Energy Distance Theory ended in the half-finished situation. But now I still eager to write and develop the papers on energy and distance. The road is long and winding as ever. I always accustomed to delay and stagnate. Some rays of light is emitting in the small study room of mine.
Tokyo
19 December 2014
Sekinan Essay
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