After the lectures and seminars at Wako University were over and the students had gone home,
When I was talking face-to-face with the professor in the quiet lab,
It was an irreplaceable moment for me.
The conversation ranged from lectures and exercises to a wide range of topics.
The topics were wide-ranging, including the former First Higher School, his research at university, and his involvement with Mount Hiei after graduation.
In particular, he was deeply involved in the pioneering studies of Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, and other languages that led the way in philosophy and modern Buddhist studies .
It was a sign of deep respect.
At the end of those days, the teacher would sometimes say,
His words were, "I have just done what I was given."
I didn't understand what the teacher was trying to convey to me by using the word "given. "
Although it would generally be taken as a sign of humility, I didn't ask my teacher.
I knew that the teacher would rarely respond to my questions in more detail.
In the summer of 1982, the editing of a three-volume collection of historical writings to be published by the University of Tokyo Press was almost complete the proofreading stage was underway.
The author, the editors of the anthology, and the publishing company were all involved in this work.
Because I was involved in the chronology and bibliography, the publishing company asked me to also proofread the text of the entire anthology .
The university had already entered summer vacation and my regular night shift work had almost finished, so
From July to early September, I was dedicated to proofreading the text of all three volumes.
This was my first time doing such serious, responsible proofreading work.
I didn't know how to properly proofread, so I worked by going back and forth between the text and the typesetting many times.
And at that moment, the image of people who lived their lives wholeheartedly in history , something that had previously been completely invisible to me due to my lack of talent , emerged from each and every sentence of the professor's essay.
The teacher had quoted an exquisite poem in an exquisite place.
Although it is excluded from this collection, a careful reading of the first volume of the anthology, which deals with the relationship between ancient literature and history, reveals that
When just one poem by a poet who has only one or a few poems published in the Manyoshuwas placed in the description of the professor's essay, the poet's entire life was revealed as if it were being surveyed .
More than any commentary on the poet or the waka poem, the deep and broad world that the poet had experienced emerged from .
The professor simply quoted that poem at a certain point in his essay .
The teacher truly " just did what he was told to do."
But through this encounter,
As a result, it has disappeared from history.
To me, my teacher's world was separate.
From now on, I will return to the world of language, which was my original subject .
The road from then on was long, long and winding.
His theory gave me a vague idea of my own state of being in this world . I too felt that I had to do my own thing .
1970s' dream, writing clear description on language universals by mathematics
The Days of Ideogram 4. Time property in characters In Autumn 2002 I got pneumonia and was hospitalized about 2 weeks, where I thought of 1970s' dream, writing clear description on language universals by mathematics. The theme was as hard as ever. So, at the bed I thought the basis of language from a side of Chinese character's classical approach which had vast heritage till Qing dynasty. I directed my attention to the character's figure which had compound meanings containing time elements continuing from Yin dynasty's hieroglyphic characters left on bones and tortoise carapaces some 2400 years ago. I thought that Chinese characters had containing time and its structure could be written by geometric approach once I had abandoned for difficulty. After leaving hospital, I wrote a paper titled On Time Property Inherent in Characters*3-1.
1970s' Dream was realized by the reunion to CHINO Eiichi in 1979 at my return to the university after faculty graduate in 1971. The first meeting withCHINO is in 1969 at his Russian language class.
Fortuitous Meeting What CHINO Eiichi Taught Me in the Class of Linguistics
TANAKA Akio CHINO taught me the core of linguistics in the class of structural linguistics. The most remarkable thing is what he explained the paper of KARCEVSKIJ to us. The title is “Du dualisme asymétrique du signe linguistique”. It became a miracle of my life. I summarize the essence of the paper from one of CHINO’s most major book,Gengogaku eno hirakareta tobira, Janua linguarum reserata in Latin. Language has the dualism. One is firm structure. The other is flexible variability. This is a very revelation in the roaming of study. At first I selected the firmness of language for my research target. It overlapped with the research of Chinese characters. Thought of KARCEVSKIJ fructified the quantum of language. The theory I reached is Quantum Theory for Language. The starting point of the theory was given from CHINO. I deeply appreciate him for teaching me almost all the things on language. CHINO Eiich died March 19, 2002. At age 70. Tokyo December 5, 2004 July 16, 2014 Added Sekinan Research Field of Language
The Linguistic Circle of Prague was taught fromCHINO Eiichiinhis 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 KARCEVSKIJ'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. 19 July 2012
My Heimat of Learning, the Linguistic Circle of Prague
TANAKA Akio
My heimat of learning is the Linguistic Circle of Prague on which I was taught from my teacher CHINO Eiichi. Sadly he died almost suddenly by disease in 2002 at age 70.
After a decade, I am now already 65 and near his later year days. When we met and told at the university or station-front old coffee shop, he had been a researcher and I had been a student all the time, and maybe sometimes been a younger friend. If we meet again, we will be the researcher-student relation same as old days but or this time only become friends that are absorbed in language problems under the dim light of a narrow coffee-shop.
Since 1979 I again learnt from CHINO on Linguistics especially on Linguistic Circle of Prague and Sergej Karcevskij.
Under the Dim Light
TANAKA Akio I frequently talked with CHINO Eiichi at the coffee shop near the station we used to get on. The shop was at the second floor and the steps upstairs always sounded squeaking. Under the dim light the topics of conversation was on language or linguistics after all. He was already the university professor but I was a poor research student. But he was always showed me the general tenderness. The subject he gave me were impressive and useful for me, in which the most important is the history of The Linguistic Circle of Prague and the excellent pioneers of language study. He had of course the unique approach to the study but I had never any conspicuous one except boundless interest on the study. In his wide and precious telling for me I gradually determined my course to proceed. It was the making of basic and radical foundation on natural language by searching the structure of language through simple and clear description. For keeping this difficult aim I had a decision that there was only way to use mathematics that I had abandoned at the past for its hardness. In my age 20s, I had read Ludwig Wittgenstein and Nicolas Bourbaki in concentrating. I did not clearly understand Wittgenstein's approach. But I borrowed his writing style that was simple and clear. So my early work's descriptions were nearly at him. But I decided that I never adopted strongly-intuitive thinking. I always considered mathematical basis or analogy. My aim was the independence from the intuitive description. Keeping on this course, there was seen the mathematical basis that I must adopt the model in which language universals are clearly described. I entered to the mathematical description of study that was confirmed premises of my way.
Farewell to language universals. Letter to WPM. Along the ridges of the mountains. On Aurora Theory. 6th Edition. 11 December 2019
Why climb mountain. Climb for existence. MIYATA Hachiro Mountain photographer, Japan – 2018
Letter to WPM Along the ridges of the mountains On Aurora Theory
Dear WPM,
Thanks a lot for RTs and probably for your lasting love on language. Now I am uploading Aurora Theory 2006 and its relevant papers to WordPress. At this occasion, I will write some memories on Aurora Theory.
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In August 2003, I stayed at Hakuba, Nagano, Japan, where Japan North Alps can be seen under the cerulean sky. I love the place for long time. Nagano is the place father and mother was born and grew up. So I also visited time to time, especially summer seasons escaping the heat at Tokyo. Ancestors’ land is the east from Hakuba over the one mountain range where Chikuma River flows north to Niigata area at where I enjoyed fishing in child days.
At that summer I would write over a paper to send a certain international symposium’s secretariat to announce a theory in December 2003 at Nara, old capital of Japan in early 700s A.D. But the theory was deadlocked at the minimal unit of language, which form cannot be seen in my mind.
One night I took a walk to renew my mind and dropped in a only-one-light-upped convenience store. In the store I saw a leaflet of electric device. This was a opportunity to solve a question of the paper.
But precise mathematical definition of quantum was not uncertain at that point in summer 2003. Clear description of mathematical quantum was waited till 2008.
Aurora theory and Aurora Time Theory was written in 2006 atthe premonition of quantum’s transcendentality for its flexibility and freedom through Time in Language.
Thus the first, the second, the forth papers of Aurora Theory was presented at my Web in 2006.
It maybe that time contained in language is thought suspiciously. In Japan, of course in China, Chinese character is used till now, at least historically from Yin Dynasty, some 2400 years ago.
Chinese character is one of ideograms, but almost of which are not used in the Occident at present day by various reasons, such as not-easy to writing, typically hieroglyph at old Egypt.
It is not so questionable that these ideograms has time or time-like function in their forms at the Orient, for example, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and so forth, because of ever using Chinese characters for written language.
Fortunately we can now verify through Chinese characters that they contain time in themselves or not. But almost Westerner do not use ideograms now. So I wrote several papers to mainly Westerners taking broad sense of ideograms, for example picture, pictograph, LATEX and so forth.
One question. Do you think that picture contains time in it?
Now my relevant papers are arranged and titled to Ideogram Paper. Refer to the next.
Now above 16 papers, I present one invitational paper titled The Days of Ideogram 2017.
The Days of Ideogram Ideogram from hieroglyph to LATEX Symbol List Note added Edition
The Days of Ideogram Ideogram from hieroglyph to LATEX Symbol List
Mark * in the text shows Reference number.
1. Ideogram Ideogram has long history. In the early paper I ever simply defined ideogram*0-1. I also wrote relative papers on ideogram from the viewpoint of Chinese characters*3-1, 3-2, 3-3. Especially Manuscript of Quantum Theory for Language 2003 is a starting root of my research on language universals*3-2. The history of ideogram continues from Egyptian hieroglyph to Chinese character and now adds LATEX Symbol List*6-1. The 21st century will necessarily become the century of ideogram. The reasons are below.
Ideogram can contain rich information in small space.
Ideogram can show information at a glance.
Ideogram can sustain information stably in long time*1-7.
Ideogram has fertile capability to superb diversity of languages*8-5.
2. Set theory Probably in summer 1977, I was designing for a paper on the sentence in language. The central part of the paper was connection between words or sentence, in which the logic of language would be shown using the set theory as a simplified model of true and false. I was strongly influenced from Kurt Godel, Gaishi Takeuchi and Bourbaki*1-1. But this design was abandoned for my lack of mathematical basis keeping on.
3. Qing dynasty’s linguistics In 1980s and 1990s I was lost in learning Chinese classical character theory, Xiaoxue, especially Qing dynasty for ideogram’s fundamental property*2-1. At this period I did not write any paper on language. I solely read WANG Guowei*1-2, WANG Yinzhi, DUAN Yucai and Qing dynasty’s linguists.
4. Time property in characters In Autumn 2002 I got pneumonia and was hospitalized about 2 weeks, where I thought of 1970s’ dream, writing clear description on language universals by mathematics. The theme was as hard as ever. So, at the bed I thought the basis of language from a side of Chinese character’s classical approach which had vast heritage till Qing dynasty. I directed my attention to the character’s figure which had compound meanings containing time elements continuing from Yin dynasty’s hieroglyphic characters left on bones and tortoise carapaces some 2400 years ago. I thought that Chinese characters had containing time and its structure could be written by geometric approach once I had abandoned for difficulty. After leaving hospital, I wrote a paper titled On Time Property Inherent in Characters*3-1.
5. Quantum elements In 2003 staying at Hakuba, Nagano, I wrote a rial paper on language universals from the viewpoint of physics. This was remained manuscript till now. The title was Manuscript ofQuantum Theory for Language*3-2 for the time being. Because in summer 2003 I wrote the first paper on language universals from physics titles as Quantum Theory for Language*3-3 which was read at a conference held in winter 2003 of Nara Japan. 6. Finite generative Language probably begins from finite elements and generates.*3-6, 3-7 its world responding to outer world. I learned the concept of finite generative from von Neumann Algebra*4-1 at around 2006 and 2007.
7. Structure and dimension Language probably has structure, which details are unknown now for me. But several phenomena hints me the existence of structure containing dimension. Its example is shown at the Crete’s lie, on which I wrote a tiny paper titled as True-false problem of the Crete*3-8in 2013. More details on mathematical approach to dimension is shown at Algebraic Geometry Language*4-2.
8. Immanent time Chinese character has immanent time in figure *3-1, 3-4. On the theme I wrote several papers between 2003 and 2005. Main papers related with the theme are seen in Early Paper and Early Paper 2*5-1, 5-2. For the immanent time, I wrote a mathematical paper titles as Word as Infinite Loop Space*3-9. In comparison with Chinese character, hieroglyph is very fantastic object on ideogram. For more details, hieroglyph is more complex for describing the concept using two functions, logogram expressing things’ meaning and phonogram expressing words’ pronunciation*0-2, 8-3. Besides hieroglyph has also definitive element which is put at the end of the word. This element is very similar to Chinese character’s meaning element which is called Pang 旁 in Chinese*8-3. But even for learning hieroglyph’s basis, I have not enough time now. I only like to see the relative events on hieroglyph at time to time . The exhibition held at Mori Arts Gallery in 2012, Tokyo titled as The British Museum ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD JOURNEY THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE *8-2 was very fantastic, in which The Greenfield Papyrus was overwhelming.
9. Disposition, distance, flow and boundary For thinking of language, I have been interested in four elements, disposition, distance flow and boundary*3-10,11,12, 13, which seem to become the basis of language. especially at researching ideogram, disposition is fundamental to construct grammar.
10. Energy, dimension and distance For more further research language , now I suppose at least three elements being based from mathematical description, which are energy, dimension and distance*3-14.
11. Mapping and category Ideogram now has an important part in computer age. Image confirmation is very popular at internet banking system, which can contain vast information in one image, so password decoding is more difficult than phonogram or Arabic numerals. Generally ideogram has vast information to the others using comparatively easy way. This ideograms situation resembles mapping at category theory in mathematics. For this point I wrote rough sketch to apply category theory to language theory. Sketch name is Derived Category Language 2016*4-3.
From the upper study, ideogram has special features as the next.
1. Ideogram is one style of writing language, rather near to image than letter. 2. Ideogram has potential to connects image and letter. 3. One ideogram generally contains more information than letter. 4. Ideogram has possibility to researching object by mathematics especially algebraic approach. 5. Ideogram has geographical and historical rich fields from Mesopotamia, Egypt to China. 6. I take Chinese character for my research’s object.
This paper is also a survey of time from modern physics side, Schrodinger, Tomonaga and Dirac. Please read this paper by the upper paperbottom’sPDF Edition which is no errata of Web-print-version.
Best regards,
T. A. Tokyo Text partly revised 4 December 2019 SRFL Paper
P.S. The latest work on quantum theory is shown at the next.
P.P.S Added from 4th Edition Being led by quantum 4 December 2019
My mathematical restart of language study was begun in March 2003, when I wrote a manuscript on quantum situation in language. At that time I had not sufficient understanding on Drinfel’d’s concept of quantum group by my poor ability of modern algebra.
The manuscript text was written in Japanese only, sorry not exist English version. Preface and Note are written in English. All the texts are the following. The study themes indicated at the manuscript was hard targets for my ability till now. My road is still succeeding to the future.
Manuscript of Quantum Theory for Language 2003-2019 Newly revised edition
Manuscript of Quantum Theory for Language Contents Preface 1 Quantization of language 2 Appearance and disappearance of quantum 3 Conjugation and class of quantum 4 Encoding of quantum and assembled quanta 5 Progress and class of quantum groups 6 Basic principle of quantum theory Note Note 2
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TANAKA Akio Preface 以下に示す「言語の量子理論」は、英文で書かれたQuantum Theory for Language の草稿となるもので、２００３年３月に長野県白馬の白馬アルプスホテルで書かれたものである。発表するのは今回が初めてである。いままで発表しなかったのは、この草稿がまったく資料のないホテルの部屋できわめて短時間のうちに書かれたものであり、そのためその内容が非常に直感的で、通常の論考とは異なる、私にとってはかなり先鋭的なものであったためである。しかも論考は途中で終わり未完のままである。２００３年１２月に或るシンポジウムで発表するためにこの草稿をもとに書き上げたQuantum Theory for Languageでは、論考の趣旨はほぼ一貫しながらもその表現をより穏やかなものにした記憶がいまもはっきりと残っている。しかし現在この草稿を読み返してみると、私が２００３年当時気にした直感性や先鋭さは、やはり私の言語論の本質に深く根ざしたものであり、ほぼ十年におよぶ言語に関する数学的な記述を経て振り返ると、私が今なお書き残しているもっとも重要ないくつかの主題は、ほぼこの草稿に記されたものであることを私はあらためて確認するに至っている。言語の量子化、量子の出現と消滅、量子の接合と階層、量子集合体、量子群の進行と階層、陽性量子と陰性量子、量子の意味とエネルギー。いずれも私にとって、依然として未知であり魅惑的であり続ける。今後私はふたたびこの草稿の位置にもどり、あらためてみずからの思考を紡いてゆくことになるであろう。老年の今となっては、本質は形態に先行し、もっとも表現したいものを、私にとってそれにもっともふさわしい方法で記述してゆくこととなるであろう。いくばくかの時間がなお残されているのであればだが。二十歳のころ恩師が教えてくれた句は今もそのまま生きている。いざゆかん雪見にころぶところまで。 ２０１５年３月２３日、東京にて記す。
Note 22 December 2017 This manuscript was written at a hotel of Hakuba, Nagano, Japan in March 2003, where my family stayed for hot spring and ski. In autumn 2002, I thought of relationship between time and characters inspired by WANG Guowei’s paper written on old Chinese character’s studies, one of which he declared that character heng 亙 was imaged from a ship coming and going the banks. This character contained the notation of the continuous time of ship operation between the banks. But if character contain the time going, character seemed to have any existence of inherent energy in it.
Definition of quantum in this manuscript was intuitive while in my mind there was rather precise image that was not able to write by mathematical approach in the days of 2003.Now the situation has been changed drastically through development of quantum group. Particularly from the Drinfeld’s speech at the international mathematician conference in 1984.I wrote the simple trial paper on quantum group in 2008. Kac-Moody Lie Algebra Note 2 Quantum Group 2008 Papers related on the pre-thought on quantum group is seen at SRFL Lab. SRFL Lab’s Preparatory paper
P.S. 3Added from 5th Edition Now remembering Aurora Theory. As the first language model.
The purpose of SRFL was the study of language universals mainly using mathematical method. The execution of the plan, mathematically simple model was inevitably needed. From 2003 continuous try and error, Aurora Theory was probably the first success work at that time’s my mathematical level combining theory’s beauty and usefulness. In those days I want to expand as language model freer and wider space than ever thinking. One conclusion was adoption of objective space.
Time passed by rapidly. My study’s main concern has been changed to the root or foundation of Language. So clearly conscious paper on language model was perhaps Lang Model 2012, at which I . At the paper, I quoted Lang conjecture (S.Lang 1974).
1. Lang conjecture (S.Lang 1974) Algebraic field F ( finite dimensional overfield over Q ) is defined over projective algebraic variety V. For a certain embedding F -> C, V is seen that V is seen as complex projective algebraic variety. If V is Kobayashi hyperbolic, V ( F ) is finite set. 2. Shafarevich conjecture ( I.Shafarevich 1963) F is algebraic field. OF is integer ring of F. Finite subset and integer are fixed. When the upper conditions are satisfied, g dimensional Abelian variety over F and genius g's algebraic curves that degenerate in only S at most only exist finite number. 3. Interpretation 3.1 Finiteness of words by Shafarevich conjecture Language := FSentence := OFWord := SWord's dimension := gWord's meaning := genius g's algebraic curves 3.2 Grammar (Connection of words) by Lang conjecture Language := FGrammar (Words' connection rule) := Kobayashi hyperbolicity 4. References 4.1 On dimension and meaning Quantum Theory for Language 2004 4.2 On Kobayashi hyperbolicity Ditance Theory 2004 From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi-Distance 2012
After studying language model, I turned the main object to the root of language, for which the two sites have been ready now, one is widely shown the root of language, the another is limited at Quantum-Nerve Theory.
Quantum-Nerve Theory is the latest theory of SRFL in Sekinan Library. The theory has researched into the root of language. Sekinan Library was founded in 1986. SRFL was founded in 2003.
Farewell to language universals. Letter to WPM. Along the ridges of the mountains. On Aurora Theory. 6th Edition. 11 December 2019
In 2003, when I started SRFL, I wrote Declaration in which the aim of SRFL is studying language universals, as the following.
Declaration
TANAKA Akio
Sekinan Research Field of Language was established at Hakuba Nagano Japan on August 23, 2003. It is abbreviated to SRFL. The aim of SRFL is the research for the language universals. Quantum theory for language is especially considered. Partially the research will be useful for clarifying the quantification of language. Also through the research, language will be a little close to the human being.
Tokyo April 23, 2004 April 11, 2014 Revised
What hauling the study was in the Linguistic Circle of Prague and one of the circle’s member Sergej Karcevskij. But along with time passing, my main study had been gradually declining to mathematical approach, avoiding the intuitive expressions in the linguistic main trend.
In 2013, I wrote a essay titled Half Farewell to Sergey Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague as the following.
Half Farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague with References
TANAKA Akio
I have thought on language through the rich results of the linguistic Circle of Prague and 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.
In 2012, I also wrote a paper titled Lang Model, which seems to be the final model paper of language universal, remembering now. After this paper, I did not write any papers directly dealing with language universals or language’s model papers.
sekinanmodel Lang Model
TANAKA Akio
1. Lang conjecture (S.Lang 1974)
Algebraic field F ( finite dimensional overfield over Q ) is defined over projective algebraic variety V.
For a certain embedding F -> C, V is seen that V is seen as complex projective algebraic variety.
If V is Kobayashi hyperbolic, V ( F ) is finite set.
2. Shafarevich conjecture ( I.Shafarevich 1963)
F is algebraic field.
OF is integer ring of F.
Finite subset
and integer
are fixed.
When the upper conditions are satisfied, g dimensional Abelian variety over F and genius g's algebraic curves that degenerate in only S at most only exist finite number.
3. Interpretation
3.1 Finiteness of words by Shafarevich conjecture
Language := F Sentence := OFWord := SWord's dimension := gWord's meaning := genius g's algebraic curves 3.2 Grammar (Connection of words) by Lang conjecture
Language := F Grammar (Words' connection rule) := Kobayashi hyperbolicity
4. References
4.1 On dimension and meaning
Quantum Theory for Language 2004
4.2 On Kobayashi hyperbolicity
Ditance Theory 2004From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi-Distance 2012This paper's description is unfinished.Tokyo17 June 2012Sekinan Research Field of LanguageHeed:
This print contains errata at Web print.
Please refer to the next correct original paper.https://sekinanmodel.wiki.zoho.com/Lang-Model.html
Main papers dealing with Language universals are the following.
Since 2013 I had individually gone forwards to Dimension, Flow and Energy aparting from language universals. Main papers dealing with dimension was the next.
Papers on language dimension In chronological order
The object that was strongly attracted wasEnergy, which was the real root of language and the origin of generating all the languages and their relative matters. Main papers are the following.
The energy of language seems to be one of the most fundamental theme for the further step-up study on language at the present for me. But the theme was hard to put on the mathematical description. Now I present some preparatory papers written so far.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
4. 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.
