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

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.

Tokyo
23 October 2013
Sekinan Research Field of Language

[References]
Papers
Arithmetic Geometry Language (AGL)
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

24 September 2014, references added
Sekinan Research Field of Language

Relevant site of Sekinan Paper

Relevant

Study results of the next sites.

Sekinan Library from 1986
SRFL from 2003
Zoho from 2008
SIL from 2014

Main papers written at Sekinan Library are read at the next Sekinan-tagged sites.

SEKINAN LIBRARY – EARLY WORK
SEKINAN PAPER – ABOUT
SEKINAN PAPER – SRFL PAPER
SEKINAN PAPER – ZOHO PAPER
SEKINAN STUDY -PAPER CLASSIFIED BY THEME

Papers and essays are also read at the next blog sites.

Sub sites are the next.

SRFL Note
SIL News

Now I am Enough Old for Remembering the Past

TANAKA Akio

Recently I read Susan Sontag’s WHERE THE STRESS FALLS, 2001. The impression is a little different with the other books.
I was never the good reader of her, but her existence was always strong and had glittered.
The time was Sixties that contained the infinite things in it.
Now I am enough old for remembering the time.
She wrote a fine essay on the time, Thirty Years Later … , 1996. The pages are short but sufficient to describe the time that was infinite and endless.
If her life was able to be shine, while my Sixties was always under the tiny dim light.
At the place where I was, the long view never could be seen. I never thought on the things as I was very coward and was fluttered even at the very tiny event of the time. I was infirm and timidity.
What I could do at that time was read or turned pages of the text books of some foreign languages.
How little and shallow heart I had, pitiable and poor existence. Probably till now.

Reference
Under the Dim Light

Tokyo
27 September 2012
Sekinan Research Field of Language

June’s flower in Japan, hydrangea at Jizoyin Temple, Akiruno, Tokyo

Last week we went to Amema, Akiruno, Tokyo for seeing hydrangea of Jizoyin Temple that was one of the old temples in Akiruno, Tokyo some 400 years history. Around the main gate, various hydrangea were blooming in their best beauty.

Tradition of Dictionary, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

Tradition of Dictionary

TANAKA Akio

Walter W. Skeat’s Concise Dictionary of English Etymology 2007 is compact but rich content dictionary of English etymology, that lets us feel the Great Britain’s long tradition of philology and dictionary making.
When surveying the dictionary making in England, its typography’s beauty and binding’s durability are enough amazing for us living in the Oriental world.
Especially I really think that the leather spine of the book’s stoutness make us feel the historical heritage. Regretfully Japan’s book spines are not so strong than the Great Britain till now.
My The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was made in 1956 but after half a century the leather spine is very smooth and beautiful against my comparatively rough handling.

Tokyo
25 May 2012
Sekinan Research Field of Language

Left: SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY THIRD EDITION WITH REVISED AND ADDENDA. 1956.
Right: ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA FIRST EDITION Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ. Reprint of the 1771 edition.

Tokyo
18 February 2015
Sekinan Library

Reread Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited

TANAKA Akio

Reread Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, 1945, that is one of the dearest novels ever read in my youth.

At that time, the impression was afar from my youth image, but now all the situations described in the novel are deeply sympathized with my recent thinking of older.

Oh surely time flied by as arrows. In my youth, the late 1960s are confused by the universities’ rebellions to the established.

I, even as cowardly poor student, also was involved in the chaos at the time. I every day only read some foreign languages’ textbooks and learnt some conjugations and declensions in the room or library.

A few teachers of foreign languages accepted my situation and gently taught me the particulars of languages, Chinese, Russian, Korean, German, French and so on.

Tokyo
Sekinan Research Field of Language

Papers on language dimension, In chronological order

Papers on language dimension
In chronological order

TANAKA Akio

To be continued

Tokyo
9 May 2015
Sekinan Library

SIL Sekinan Institute of Language

Beginning

How is the time alive in language?

When one first hears 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.

Perhaps return to physics

Recently my situation for language research has changed rather drastically.
I have loved mathematics ever since I understood that mathematics was the only fantastic way for solving the problems of the nature through absolute clear description.

Work

The days of von Neumann Algebra

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.

History

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

Sekinan Essay, Tokyo

Sekinan Essay

Tokyo
7 November 2014

Sekinan Essay is the essay site of Sekinan Library and SRFL Sekinan Research Field of Language. Sekinan Library was founded in 1986 at Tachikawa, Tokyo. In 2003 Sekinan Library added SRFL Sekinan Institute of Language for the further study of language at Hakuba, Nagano, Japan, aiming to study language universals using contemporary mathematical results.

Main essays written at Sekinan Library are read at the next sites.

SRFL SEKINAN RESEARCH FIELD OF LANGUAGE – ESSAY

SEKINAN DAYS – ESSAY

SRFL DATA – ESSAY

SEKINAN VIEW – ESSAY