Concept of Distance
TANAKA Akio
TANAKA Akio
When I was thinking on language universals, the most enchanting intuition was distance.
I first wrote a paper titled On Time Property Inherent in Characters 2003 and the succeeding paper was Distance Theory 2004. In this theory distance was the core concept that unifies the grammatical elements in word.
Thereafter I wrote the paper Connection of Words 2012. So distance is thought to be relative with connection working.
Successively writing, I also wrote the paper Grassmann Language 2012, in which the distance concept is defined by the algebraic geometrical way.
Now I am learning on distance from algebra using the famous classic on distance, M.Eichler's Quadratische Formen und orthogonal Gruppen 1973.
Tokyo
24 May 2012
Sekinan Research Field of Language