Language Universal Models
1. Repeated Integral Model
1.1 Hyperbolic volume Volume of Language
1.2 Hyperbolic space Hyperbolic Space Language
2. Minimal Model
2.1 Free group Notes for KARVESKIJ Sergej, “Dusualisme asymétrique du signe linguistique”
2.2 Fundamental group Description of Language
2.3 de Rham complex Structure of Word
2.4 de Rham complex on spherical surface Condition of Meaning
3. Knot Theory Model
3.1 Hida deformation space Loop Time f Character
4. Jones-Witten Theory Model
4.1 Witten invariant Symmetry of Language
5. Moduli Model
5.1 Projective algebraic manifold Completion of Language
5.2 Projective algebraic manifold Meaning Minimum of Language
6. Arithmetic Geometry Model
6.1 Riemann-Roch Formula Language, Word, Distance, Meaning and Meaning Minimum
7. Projective Space Model
7.1 Grothendieck theorem Vector Bundle Model
8. Diophantine Approximation Model-Diophantine Language
8.1 Faltings theorem Finiteness of Words
8.2 Noguchi, Winkelmann theorem Dimension of Words
Tokyo
January 25, 2012
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Three Conjectures for Dimension, Synthesis and Reversion with Root and Supplement
Three Conjectures for Dimension, Synthesis and Reversion with Root and Supplement
Root
Arithmetic Geometry Language
Three Conjectures
Dimension Decrease Conjecture (Conjecture 1)
Synthesis Conjecture (Conjecture 2)
Reversion Conjecture (Conjecture 3)
Supplement
Interpretation of Reversion Conjecture
Simplification of Reversion Conjecture
Reversion Conjecture Revised
Tokyo
19 November 2014
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At least three elements for language universals
At least three elements for language universals
Supposition 1:
Three elements for language universals
For language universals, now I suppose at least three elements being based from mathematical description.
Three elements for language universals are energy, dimension and distance.
The most fundamental element is energy. By this energy, all the movements and changes occur in language.
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All the languages are located at a certain dimension in space. By this dimension, confusions in language are averted.
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In language, all the movements and changes inevitably make distance occurred. By this distance, important phases of language are clearly defined.
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Supposition 2:
Mathematical description for three elements of language universals
Energy, dimension and distance can be describe by mathematical writing.
Energy in language is now preparatory description til now.
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- Energy of Language / Stochastic Meaning Theory
- Energy and Distance / Energy Distance Theory
- Energy and Functional / Energy Distance Theory
- Potential of Language / Floer Homology Language
For dimension, definite results are presented being aided by arithmetic geometry.
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For distance, its vast and vagueness of the concept can not be grasped up. But related papers of mine are probably the most in number.
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- Distance / Direct Succession of Distance Theory / Distance Theory Algebraically Supplemented
- Distance of Word / Complex Manifold Deformation Theory
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This paper is not finished.
Tokyo
27 February 2015
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Glitter of youth through philosophy and mathematics in1970s
Glitter of youth through philosophy and mathematics in1970s
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 turmoils 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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The days between von Neumann Algebra and Complex Manifold Deformation Theory
The days between von Neumann Algebra and Complex Manifold Deformation Theory
von Neumann Algebra was written from 3 April 2008 to 2 May 2008. And Complex Manifold Deformation Theory was written from 30 November 2008 to 9 January 2009. In the days between the two theories I wrote the following 4 paper groups.
- Functional Analysis
- Reversion Analysis Theory
- Holomorphic Meaning Theory
- Stochastic Meaning Theory
These days were the preparatory time for regularised writing by algebraic geometry at Zoho site. But they were relatively precious days for thinking about the reshuffling mathematics and physics related with language. Especially Stochastic Meaning Theory was a milestone for mathematical approaching to physical phenomenon of language.Stochastic Meaning Theory’s titles are the next.
- Stochastic Meaning Theory
On the other hand, I really realised that mathematical writing of natural phenomenon, for example natural language, inevitably needed clear routes by mathematics that was represented by function analysis approach. Functional Analysis and Reversion Analysis Theory were the trial papers aiming for new ground, especially the comparison of finiteness and infinity in generation of words and sentences.
- Functional Analysis 1
Note
1. Baire’s Category Theorem
2. Equality and Inequality
3. Space
4. Functional
Conjecture
1. Finiteness of Vocabulary
2. Distance at Hypersurface
- Functional Analysis 2
Note
1. Pre-Hilbert Space and Hilbert Space
2. Orthogonal Decomposition
Conjecture
1. Generation of Word
- Reversion Analysis Theory
1. Reversion Analysis Theory
2. Reversion Analysis Theory 2
But at that time I could not decide the main field of mathematics for applying to language study. Moreover I never thought about language models parting from natural language and constructing the new field for thinking about language universals.
After these preparation of algebra that was started from Premise of Algebraic Linguistics 1 -1 at 11 September 2007, I barely reached to the entrance of algebraic geometry’s use for language and making the language models. It was Complex Manifold Deformation Theory which began to write at 30 November 2008 titling Distance of Word, one of my main themes for language universals from the very starting of language study. Thus my study first focused to making language models of algebraic geometry using complex manifold.
- Complex Manifold Deformation Theory
- Distance of Word
- Reflection of Word
- Uniqueness of Word
- Amplitude of Meaning Minimum
- Time of Word
- Orbit of Word
- Understandability of Language
# Here ends the paper.
Tokyo
6 January 2015
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The Days of von Neumann Algebra
The Days of von Neumann Algebra
1.
My study’s turning point from intuitive essay to mathematical writing was at the days of learning von Neumann Algebra, that was written by four parts from von Neumann Algebra 1 to von Neumann Algebra 4. The days are about between 2006 and 2008, when I was thinking about switching over from intuitive to algebraic writing. The remarkable results of writing these papers were what the relation between infinity and finiteness in language was first able to clearly describe. Two papers of von Neumann 2. Property Infinite and Purely Infinite, were the trial to the hard theme of infinity in language.The contents’ titles are the following.
von Neumann Algebra
On Infinity of Language
1 von Neumann Algebra 1
2 von Neumann Algebra 2
3 von Neumann Algebra 3
4 von Neumann Algebra 4
References
1 Algebraic Linguistics
2 Distance Theory Algebraically Supplemented
3 Noncommutative Distance Theory
4 Clifford Algebra
5 Kac-Moody Lie Algebra
6 Operator Algebra
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2.
The papers of von Neumann Algebra and References are the next.
von Neumann Algebra 1
1 Measure
2 Tensor Product
3 Compact Operator
von Neumann Algebra 2
1 Generation Theorem
von Neumann Algebra 3
1 Properly Infinite
2 Purely Infinite
von Neumann Algebra 4
1 Tomita’s Fundamental Theorem
2 Borchers’ Theorem
Algebraic Linguistics <Being grateful to the mathematical pioneers>
On language universals, group theory is considered to be hopeful by its conciseness of expression. Especially the way from commutative ring to scheme theory is helpful to resolve the problems a step or two.
1 Linguistic Premise
2 Linguistic Note
3 Linguistic Conjecture
4 Linguistic Focus
5 Linguistic Result
Distance Theory Algebraically Supplemented
Algebraic Note
1 Ring
2 Polydisk <Bridge between Ring and Brane>
3 Homology Group
4 Algebraic cycle
Preparatory Consideration
1 Distance
2 Space <9th For KARCEVSKIJ Sergej>
3 Point
Brane Simplified Model
1 Bend
2 Distance <Direct Succession of Distance Theory>
3 S3 and Hoph Map
Noncommutative Distance Theory
Note
1 Groupoid
2 C*-Algebra
3 Point Space
4 Atiyah’s Axiomatic System
5 Kontsevich Invariant
[References]
Conjecture and Result
1 Sentence versus Word
2 Deep Fissure between Word and Sentence
Clifford Algebra
Note
1 From Super Space to Quantization
2 Anti-automorphism
3 Anti-self-dual Form
4 Dirac Operator
5 TOMONAGA’s Super Multi-time Theory
6 Periodicity
7 Creation Operator and Annihilation Operator
Conjecture
1 Meaning Product
Kac-Moody Lie Algebra
Note
1 Kac-Moody Lie Algebra
2 Quantum Group
Conjecture
1 Finiteness in Infinity on Language
Operator Algebra
Note
1 Differential Operator and Symbol
2 <A skipped umber>
3 Self-adjoint and Symmetry
4 Frame Operator
Conjecture
1 Order of Word
2 Grammar3 Recognition
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3.
After writing von Neumann Algebra 1 – 4, I successively wrote the next.
Functional Analysis
Reversion Analysis Theory
Holomorphic Meaning Theory
Stochastic Meaning Theory
Especially Stochastic Meaning Theory clearly showed me the relationship between mathematics and physics, for example Brownian motion in language. After this theory I really entered the algebraic geometrical writing by Complex manifold deformation Theory. The papers are shown at Zoho site’s sekinanlogos.
- sekinanlogos
Complex Manifold Deformation Theory
- Distance of Word
- Reflec bsp;of Word
- Uniqueness of Word
- Amplitude of Meaning Minimum
- Time of Word
- Orbit of Word
- Understandability of Language
- Topological Group Language Theory
- Boundary of Words
Symplectic Language
- Symplectic Topological Existence Theorem
- Gromov-Witten Invariantational Curve
- Mirror Symmetry Conjecture on Rational Curve
- Isomorphism of Map Sequence
- Homological Mirror Symmetry Conjecture by KONTSEVICH
- Structure of Meaning
Floer Homology Language
- Potential of Language
- Supersymmetric Harmonic Oscillator
- Grothendieck Group
- Reversibility of language
- Homology Generation of Language
- Homology Structure of word
- Quantization of Language
- Discreteness of Language
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4.
The learning from von Neumann Algebra 1 ended for a while at Floer Homology Language, where I first got trial papers on language’s quantisation or discreteness. The next step was a little apart from von Neumann algebra or one more development of algebra viz. arithmetic geometry.
# Here ends the paper.
## The cited papers’ texts are also shown at this site.
vide: The days between von Neumann Algebra and Complex Manifold Deformation Theory
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3 December 2015
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Gift from Sergej Karcevskij
TANAKA Akio
1.
Is language variable? If so, where is substance of variability?
2.
Variability occurs in substance.
3.
What is not substance is untrue in variability.
4.
Where is substance of language?
5.
Letters are substance. Pronunciations are substance. Meanings are substance?
6.
Meanings occurs in inner human being.
7.
The sun rises in the east. It is true. The sun also rises. It is true in Hemingway.
8.
Meaning is variable.
9.
At where occurs variability of meaning?
10.
If variability of meaning is true, substance in which variability occurs must be shown in front of us.
Tokyo
October 23, 2005
Sekinan Research Field of Language
Postscript [References January 1, 2008]
Substantiality / Tokyo February 27, 2005
Substantiality of Language / Tokyo February 21, 2006
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Coffee shop named California
From Print 2012, Chapter 10
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.
Source: Tale / Print by LI Koh / 27 January 2012
References:
Under the Dim Light / 1 August 2012
Road to Language Universals / 31 December 2012
Half Farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague / 23 October 2013
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CHINO Eiichi and 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”.
[References]
- From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi Distance / 5 February 2012
- Linguistic Circle of Prague / 13 July – 19 July 2012
- Prague in 1920s, The Linguistic Circle of Prague and Sergej Karcevskij’s paper “Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique” / Print, 2012
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28 June 2014
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I need not more wander the book shop streets
From Print 2012, Chapter 10
I need not more wander the book shop streets. The object exists in my mind. I would better watch the canal. Wandering is over now. Perhaps I would not become meister forever. In my narrow working place, I ‘d better do my work till sunset. So out of the window by the working place, the saint passes by. I ever read the Russian folk tale like that.
The Autumn evening is fast. The headlight of streetcar is dazzling. In the yellow-lighten window the passengers are picked out by the light. The car disappeared to the book streets. The station shop is also lighted up by the yard’s busy orange light.
Read more: http://srflnote.webnode.com/news/i-need-not-more-wander-the-book-shop-streets-from-tale-print-2012/
[Reference]
- 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
[Note 1 October 2014]
“I need not more wander the book shop streets.”
From Tale, Print, 2012
This 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.
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The Time of Language Ode to The Early Bourbaki To Grothendieck / Note added, 28 October 2014
The Time of Language Ode to The Early Bourbaki To Grothendieck / Note added, 28 October 2014
The Time of Language
Ode to The Early Bourbaki To Grothendieck
TANAKA Akio
In early 1970s, I had think of language from the side of mathematics, that level of mine is very low and primitive, moreover I never had any talent to mathematics.
But my eager to trying the approach was going to overcome hard barriers before me. So the route had really fascinated my mind for long time.
At that time I had read Chinese classics almost every day. WANG Guowei*, DUAN Yucai and WANG Yingzhi. They were giants on Chinese language historically and modernly.
On the other hand I had thought of language generally, not defined by Chinese.
But in front of the vast world of language, I had stood still lonely, not taking any method for approaching.
Mathematics was the only gleam of hope in the wasteland.
I never took the route of ordinary linguistics.
I really dreamt a dream that time.
There exists set theory before me.
Probably there was the influence of Bourbaki**, that several translations to Japanese, shared from Tokyo Tosho Publisher, were on the desk of mine.
My talent and endeavour were so low, so I had not any results at that time.
My desire was deep but my hand was so shallow.
The time passed by.
In 1979 the meeting again with CHINO Eiichi*** made me the chance to learn on language, the object was clear and direct.
Language universals by mathematics became the never-ending goal of the study hereafter.
Sergej Karcevskij**** gave me the courage to the research.
All the way to investigation were taught from CHINO, who was the genuine teacher on language.
In mathematics I took the route from geometry, especially by projection.
Now I stand at algebraic geometry.
Grothendieck is in the northernmost at the end of Bourbaki.
SAITO Takeshi said at the essay on Grothendieck***** that the object of mathematics for Bourbaki was the set of being attached by construction and the object of mathematics for Grothendieck was the object of category representing the presentable functor.
The time has come for describing****** on language by mathematics despite my poor ability.
Sincere thanks for the pioneers letting us make the fascinating route of modern mathematics.
1. *WANG Guowei
Encounter in life / A Letter /2005
Influenced paper / On Time Property Inherent in Characters / 2003 , Quantum Theory for Language / 2004
2. **Bourbaki
SAITO Takeshi. Bourbaki, Mathematics Seminar, vol.41 no.4 487. Nihonhyoronsha, Tokyo, 2002.
3.***CHINO Eiicji
First met in 1969, again in 1979. Fortuitous Meeting
4. ****Sergej Karcevskij
Note on Karcevskij’s theme. Note for KARCEVSKIJ Sergej’s “Dudualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique”
5. *****Grothendieck
SAITO Takeshi. Grothendieck, Mathematics Seminar, vol.49 no.5 584. Nihonhyoronsha, Tokyo, 2010.
6. ******describing
Note on Grothendieck’s theorem. Vector Bundle Model
Tokyo
January 10, 2012
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[Note, 28 October 2014]
When I first learnt French in 1964, I was the second grade of high school. My aim to learning was to get the lowest readable situation for modern poems of French Symbolism represented by Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Afterwards in 1969 I knew the importance of Martinet’s work at the linguistic class of university. Probably in the early 1970s, I bought Bourbaki’s books at the old-book-shop at Kanda, Tokyo, when Bourbaki’s fame reached to the poor-talented linguistic student like me. I was enchanted Bourbaki’s works and I somehow would like to adopt their results to my linguistic study. But my mathematical level was too low to get near Bourbaki’s world. From those days my wandering around mathematics and linguistics kept long long way like the Beatles song, The long and winding road. What I again met mathematics, especially algebraic algebra was already over the twentieth century. From 2003 I began to write papers being assisted with CHINO Eiichi’s advice and Sergej Karcevskij’s work. At that times Chinese Qing dynasty’s vast linguistic works topically represented by WANG Guowei was also assisting my study. At the result my first satisfied paper,”On Time Property Inherent in Characters”1 was completed. The theme in my life, model making of language universals was begun further later in 2008 at Zoho site 2 sekinanlogos 3. At Complex Manifold Deformation Theory 4 I started writing more clearer descriptive papers by mathematics especially according to algebraic geometry. And now I step up one more and entered in arithmetic geometry 5 for solving more difficult themes such as dimension, synthesis and fusion of meaning in word.
Refer to the next.
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Non-symmetry, 1920s’ Prague and Sergej Karcevskij’s “Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique”
Non-symmetry, 1920s’ Prague and Sergej Karcevskij’s “Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique”
From Print 2012, Chapter 18
非対称性。Non-symmetry. それはかつてＣと繰り返し話した内容だ。It was the very theme that I repeatedly talked on with C.１９２０年代のプラハ。Prague in 1920s. 雑誌TCLPに載ったカルツェフスキイの論文、「言語記号の非対称的二重性」。Karcevskij’s paper “Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique” that appeared in the magazine TCLP. 言語が保持し続けるところの、それによって言語が言語であり続けるところの、絶対的に矛盾する柔構造と硬構造の共存。Absolutely contradicted coexistence between flexibility and solidity, which language keeps on maintaining, by which language continues existing as language. 言語において二重に内在し続けるだろう永遠の矛盾。Still now there will exist the everlasting dual contradiction in language.言語がかくも柔軟でかくも堅固でいられるのはなぜか。Why can language stay in such solid and such flexible condition like that. そのほとんど絶対的に矛盾するかともおもわれる二重性をカルツェフスキイは提示した。Karcevskij proposed the duality that is seemed to be almost absolute contradiction. Ｃがその最後の本の中でただ一人天才と称した言語学者、セルゲイ・カルツェフスキイが残した白眉の論考。Sergej Karcevskij’s best of papers, for whom C called as the only genius in his last book.
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Half Farewell to the Linguistic Circle of Prague and Sergej Karcevskij
I have thought on language through the rich results of the linguistic Circle of Pragueand its important member Sergej Karcevskij. But now my recent thinking has inclined towards algebraic or arithmetic geometrical method and description.
Probably it is the time of half farewell to those milestones which led me to the standing place here with rather sufficient results in my ability. Great thanks to all that always encouraged me for hard and vague target on language especially meaning and its surroundings. And also to CHINO Eiichi with love and respect who taught me all the bases of language study.
For recent results see the following papers group named AGL Arithmetic Geometry Language and related essays.
Papers
AGL Arithmetic Geometry Language
- Dimension of Language (AGL 1)
- Synthesis of Meaning and Transition of Dimension (AGL 2)
- Birth of Word, Synthesis of Meaning and Dimension of New Word (AGL 3)
- Dimension Conjecture at Synthesis of Meaning (AGL 4)
Essays
- Parts and Whole
- Edward Sapir’s Language, 1921
- Macro Time and Micro Time
- Meaning Minimum
- Disposition of Language
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23 October 2013
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Linguistic Circle of Prague
Linguistic Circle of Prague
The Linguistic Circle of Prague was taught from CHINO Eiichi in his class of Structural Linguistics in the late 1970s. We first met at the university in 1969. He was young, probably the age 30s. I was 21 years old.
Now referring his chronological record, CHINO was born in 1932, graduated Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1955, entered Carrel University at Czechoslovakia in 1958 and returned to Japan in 1964. So we met after 5 years from his returning.
Sometimes we conversed at the coffee shop near the station we used. California, it was the name of the shop, up the rattled stairs, under the dim light. It was the youth time of mine and probably with him.The greatest thing he gave me was teaching me the existence of KARCEVSKIJ Sergei in the Linguistic Circle of Prague. My latter half life was almost determined by KARCEVSLIJ’s one paper, ” Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique” .
One day on the train after school, he calmly but definitely said to me that he never was linguist because he never discovered any new language or law and he only was the introducer to general linguistics.
Now I really think that I am also never linguist nor introducer. I only love language, so have written on language or its around till now. CHINO taught me the the study or rather more deep attitude to the life itself.
Regretfully he died in 2002, age 70.
He wrote several books on linguistics. The masterpiece that I confirmed isJanua Linguisticae reserata 1994, that is the general invitation to linguistics for further studying of wide and deep view.
The title was determined by the famous book of Jan Amos Komensky 1592-1670, Janua Linguarum reserata 1632. Here I feel CHINO’s deep love to the history and culture to Czechoslovakia where he studied for Czech in 7 years.
[Note added]
I frequently heard on Linguistic Circle of Prague (LCP) from CHINO. But now standing in the twilight of my learning, I have not understood anything about it essentially, that had probably much more heritage for contemporary language study than my thinking. I already old and can never start to cultivate the new frontier on LCP or its successive study. Only saying is what I really recognise that LCP and Russian philology is the heimat of my language study. It is and will be the heimat of my soul evermore.
Tokyo
19 July 2012
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The Time of Wittgenstein
TANAKA Akio
There surely exists the time of Wittgenstein for me.
That time about in my 30s, in the middle of 1970s.
One may aware of the kernel of the problem after almost all the hardships were gone and the problem is going under pursuing in the daily work for oneself, as Wittgenstein wrote at 6.521 in TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS.
Wittgenstein wrote on language immanently at least in TRACTATUS.
He also said in TRACTATUS 6.432 that how world exists does not care from the higher dimensions.
I also wanted to write on language from the immanent side in language.
But I had not any pursuing method for writing on language at that time, only remaining set theory typically presented by Bourbaki that some translations were surely on my desk.
Set theory was enough fascinating at the time, but it did not give me any relative and constructive situations on language or widely on the world. It was isolated and non-relative for writing on language. I wanted the bond of the world.
Now I have geometry for which the world can be bonded enough tightly. In 1970s I was never aware of the existence of geometry by myself, probably not being influenced from Wittgenstein’s 6.35 in TRACTATUS, Geometry absolutely tell nothing on how the figure is and where the figure situated.
So I had remain silently in the days not being able to write on the theme, the basic essence of language. Then I never knew the object on language, language universals that was taught from CHINO Eiichi later in 1980s. CHINO showed me the paper of Sergej Karcevskij, Du dualisme asymétrique du singe linguistique. The theme determined my remain life hereafter. CHINO was the true teacher of my study.
Wittgenstein wrote at the last 6.54 of TRACTATUS that his some propositions must be abandoned. I began to go through the wood of hard theme of language universals by mathematics especially using geometry. About what can be told to, I never must be silent.
Reference
Citation from Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tokyo
January 20, 2012
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