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Friday, 5 December 2014

Time in Word with Note and Note 2 / 24 October 2013, 17 November 2014 and 3 December 2014

Time in word



Time inherent in word has been one of the most fantastic theme for me for a long period. WANG Guowei’s paper was strongly hinted to the theme towards first writing a trial paper on it. Roman Jakobson was also gave me the basic notion related with the theme. Still now the problem has not solved as the starting point. But being aided by mathematical method and description,  learning on it has become more attractive in these days.
Tokyo
24 October 2013

SIL

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[Note]
When I wrote this essay, "Time in Word" in the autumn of 2013, the relation between time and dimension cannot be thought clearly but now in 2014 I distinctly think that the relation exists at the situation of synthesis of the new meaning on the old meaning. The four papers of Arithmetic Geometry Language written between 4 September 2013 and 9 September 2013 are indicating the affinity with time and dimension. Now I show the compact paper in the four, titled " Synthesis Meaning and Transition of Dimension".
Four papers of Arithmetic Geometry Language are the following.

Arithmetic Geometry Language (Abbreviated AGL)
Tokyo
17 November 2014
SIL
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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

How is the time alive in language? / 26 November 2014

How is the time alive in language?


TANAKA Akio

1.
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 RenjianCihua. 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".
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.
    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


   Above all, the first paper in this group, I first defined the concept, distance by complex manifold.
   The concept of distance was one of the most important themes on language, so I at early times wrote the intuitive paper, "Distance Theory".
   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".
    4.
   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.
    In the group, a paper focused on mirror phase on language became one peak for my writing.
     5.
     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.
     In this group, the eighth paper was dealt with the quantization and discreteness of language.
      6.
      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.
    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.
    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.
    7.
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.

    From these four papers, I concisely extracted the next three conjectures.

   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.    

8.
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.

9.
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 -

10.
Ode to Kanda

"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. 
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. 

Tokyo / 26 November 2014 / SIL

Sunday, 16 November 2014

Time in word, 24 October 2013 / Note added 17 November 2014, Note 2 added 3 December 2014

Time in word



Time inherent in word has been one of the most fantastic theme for me for a long period. WANG Guowei’s paper was strongly hinted to the theme towards first writing a trial paper on it. Roman Jakobson was also gave me the basic notion related with the theme. Still now the problem has not solved as the starting point. But being aided by mathematical method and description,  learning on it has become more attractive in these days.
Tokyo
24 October 2013

SIL

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[Note]
When I wrote this essay, "Time in Word" in the autumn of 2013, the relation between time and dimension cannot be thought clearly but now in 2014 I distinctly think that the relation exists at the situation of synthesis of the new meaning on the old meaning. The four papers of Arithmetic Geometry Language written between 4 September 2013 and 9 September 2013 are indicating the affinity with time and dimension. Now I show the compact paper in the four, titled " Synthesis Meaning and Transition of Dimension".
Four papers of Arithmetic Geometry Language are the following.

Arithmetic Geometry Language (Abbreviated AGL)
Tokyo
17 November 2014
SIL
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[Note 2]
The relation between time and dimension is now arranged at the following paper.
The overview of time in language is now shown at the following paper.
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[Note 3]
Essay "Pleasure of Mathematics" includes time notion related with Brownian motion.



Tokyo
3 December 2014
15 December 2014, Note 3 added

Saturday, 11 October 2014

The Time of Language Ode to The Early Bourbaki To Grothendieck / 10 January 2012


The Time of Language
Ode to The Early Bourbaki To Grothendieck




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. Nihonhyoronsya, 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. Nihonhyoronsya, Tokyo, 2010.
6. ******describing
Note on Grothendieck's theorem. Vector Bundle Model


Friday, 26 September 2014

Flow of Language / Heritage of WANG Guowei and Edward Sapir / 26 September 2014

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0.Progress so far
  1. Half farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague / 23 October 2013 / With References
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1. Language is substance.
  1. Substantiality Dedicated to SAPIR Edward / 27 February 2005

2. Language has structure.

3. Language has dimension.
  1. Dimension of Language / 9 September 2013
  2. Disposition of Language / 12 September 2014 / With supplement

4. Language has energy.
  1. Energy of Language / For ZHANG Taiyan and Wenshi 1908 / Stochastic Meaning Theory / 24 July 2008
  2. Potential of Language / Floer Homology Language / 29 April 2009

5. Language has flow.

  1. Time Flow in Word / For KOHARI Akihiro and His Time / Language and Spacetime / 3 May 2007

6. Language has time.
  1. On Time Property Inherent in Characters / 28 March 2003

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Note

N1. 
At this paper, the most important theme is "5. Language has flow." For this theme, clear and mathematical description must be proposed for the further research's development. Its premise  by mathematical basic description is shown at
2.2 Homology Structure of Word / Floer Homology Language / 16 June 2009
4.2 Potential of Language / Floer Homology Language / 29 April 2009 

N2.
The intuitive concept of flow of language was prepared by WANG Guowei's Guantangjilin and Edward Sapir's Language for my study.
For WANG Guowei / A Letter / 11 March 2003 
Edward Sapir's Language, 1921 / 5 September 2014  

N3.
Mathematical approach will be done by geometry that is the most  image-able for me. Many thanks to the contemporary mathematicians for their radical works.

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This paper is still continued.

Tokyo
26 September 2014
SRFL Sekinan Research Field of Language

Friday, 25 July 2014

Quantum Theory for Language / 15 January 2004


Synopsis

Revised and Noted from Prototheory Paper   On Time Property Inherent in Characters



1
The object of this theory is isolating languages. #1
2
The Chinese language is adopted for the model of isolating languages. #2
3
In this theory the Chinese character is regarded as the Chinese language.
Therefore this theory is the theory for written language. #3   
4
The Chinese character is the basis of this theory.
5
The Chinese character is the quantum of language. #4
Quantum is defined.
The quantum of language is the smallest unit of language.
The quantum of language has the force.
This force propels oneself to the next quantum.
Force is defined.
6
The quantum consists of indicators. #5
7
The indicator is the shape abstracted from the real world.
Indicator is defined.
The indicator has the signification and the period inherently.
8
The inherent signification of the indicator is produced from the work of the real world.
Inherent signification is defined.
The inherent period of the indicator is produced from the time of the real world.
Inherent period is defined.
9
The quantum consists of one or more than one indicators.
10
The quantum has the inherent meaning and the inherent time that is produced from one or more than one indicators. #6
11
The inherent meaning of the quantum is produced from the indicator or the combination of the indicators.
Inherent meaning is defined.
12
The inherent time of the quantum is produced from the indicator or the combination of the indicators.
Inherent time is defined.
13
The period of indicator has the start point and the end point.
The length of two points is called the period zone.
Period zone is defined.
The time of quantum have the start point and the end point.
The length of two points is called the time zone.
Time zone is defined.
14
The time zone of the quantum decides the state of the connection of the two quanta.
This state of the connection is called <time principle of quantum>.#7
15
The front quantum that has the short time zone can connect the rear quantum that has the long time zone.
This qualification is called <connection rule>.
This situation of connection is called word.
Word is defined.
16
The front quantum that has the long time zone cannot connect the rear quantum that has the short time zone.
This qualification is called <separation rule>.
This situation of separation is called sentence.
Sentence is defined.
17
Language has the gathering of words.
This gathering is called territory.
Territory is defined.
18
Language has the gathering of sentences.
This gathering is called province.
Province is defined.
19
The quantum appears for the purpose of adding the new value of the territory. #8
The value can spread the recognition of the human being.
This value is called harvest.
Harvest is defined.
20
Quantum propels oneself to the next quantum on a line.
This line is called orbit.
Orbit is defined.
21
Quanta propel on an orbit by the force of quanta.
The force of the quantum is produced from the indicator.
The indicator is the shape abstracted from the real world.
Therefore the indicator constantly approach to the real world.
This approach makes the force of quantum.
The force is placed in this theory.
The quantum connects real world by the force of approach.
This connection guarantees the existence of the quantum.
The quantum makes the word.
The quanta make the word.
The word is guaranteed.
The quanta make the sentence.
The sentence is guaranteed.
The quanta make the language.
The language is guaranteed.
22
A sentence needs an orbit.
Another sentence needs another obit.
Two sentences cannot propel on the same orbit.
This qualification is called <propelling rule>.
23
A sentence becomes at rest when a quantum approaches the most nearly to the real world.
The force of the quantum disappears because of no use of approaching to the real world.
This phenomenon is called standstill.
Standstill is defined.
Standstill phenomenon is concerned with the prayer of belief in human being.
Because the prayer is the act of constantly approach to the real world of religion.
Standstill phenomenon is a subject for the anthropology of religion. #9
24
The orbit is linear.
Next orbit is under the former orbit in this theory.
The quantum of next orbit is located just below the quantum of the former orbit.
For example from Chinese, / Wo shuo de shi jiade. /In English, What I say is a lie.
By the combination rule, the separation rule and propelling rule, this Chinese is showed below.
     Wo
shuo
             de
               shi jia
                    de.
This showing of the orbits is called orbit table. #10
Orbit table is defined.
The quanta on the same orbit is called phrase.
Phrase is defined.
In the orbit table, the place of the each orbit is called the layer.
Layer is defined.
25
In upper orbit table, the orbit of /shuo/, say, and /shi jia/, is a lie, is located in another layer. 
The orbit of /shuo/ is guaranteed.
The orbit of /shi jia/ is also guaranteed.
26
The orbit of /shuo/ and the orbit of /shi jia/ are different.
Two orbits belong to another place of the language.  
Language is made from orbits on which quanta are located.
27
/Wo shuo de shi jia de. / becomes contradiction in the current recognition of language.
But in this theory /shuo/ and /jiade/ are located another orbit.
Therefore contradiction is avoided.
Two orbits are equally guaranteed.
But the quantum of /shuo/ is farther than the quanta of /shi jia/ from the standstill.
/shi jia/ is nearer to the real world than /shuo/.
In the linear obit, nearer quantum to the standstill is stronger to the real world.
This is called <strength rule>.
Strength is a quantity of distance, from one quantum to the real world.
Strength is defined.
28
/Wo shuo de shi jia de. / is recognized below.
“The world is a lie. One place in this world I tell someone something.”
There is no contradiction here.

Notes
#1
This theory originates in the concept <drift> of Edward Sapir.
#2
This theory is indebted to the book of Wang Yingzhi, Jingzhuanshici.
#3
Chinese characters are almost the Chinese language itself.
Because Chinese syllabic sounds always request the own images for the memories.
Therefore Chinese characters can also act as the spoken Chinese. 
#4
This Concept originates in the paper of Wang Guowei, Yinbucizhong suojian xiangong xianwang kao.
#5
Chinese character /yu/ generally means give birth to in English.
In ancient style of character /jia gu wen/ inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, it has three indicators, woman bending forward, body fluid at childbirth, new born baby.
Therefore this character has the inherent meaning and time.
In other words, there are three successive categories of meaning and time, pregnancy, birth and support.
The quantum is essentially structural.
#6
This concept originates in the paper of Sergej Karcevskij, “Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique”.
#7
The quantum of language disappears when the meaning of the quantum goes out of use.
For example, Chinese character /bu/ not originally meant a part of flower.
But this notional meaning disappeared early in the Chinese language.
Later instead of this meaning, /bu/ possessed the denial function. 
#8
Chinese character /jiao/ means teach in English, containing short time.
Chinese character /shi/ means room in English, containing long time.
Time of existence is longer than time of movement. Therefore /jiao shi/ makes one word. It means classroom.
But /shi jiao/ make one sentence, not one word. It means in the classroom I teach.
So connection and separation of the quanta are the new syntactic principle of the Chinese language.
It is called< time principle of quantum>.
#9
This theory is also a gift to anthropology, which always gives the theory flashes of thinking.
Many thanks for anthropology, especially for the book of Kawada Junzo, Mumoji shakai no rekishi.   
#10
In Chinese traditional syntax, characters have been classified into two groups, /shi ci/ notional words and /xu ci/ functional words.
In this quantum theory, notional words have long time, functional words have short time.
Orbit table is made by the time measuring of this traditional classification.
<Quantum Theory for Language> inherits the linguistic method from /xiaoxue/ small study of the /Qing/ Ching dynasty.


Tokyo January 15, 2004
For the memory of Hakuba August 23, 2003

Postscript
[References / January 21, 2008]
<On the property of quantum>
<On orbit and orbit table>

[References / December 21, 2008]
<Survey at the time>
<Following theory at the time>
<A conclusion at the time>

[Reference / January 1, 2009]