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[5] ai.viXra.org:2607.0052 [pdf] submitted on 2026-07-21 19:22:23
Authors: Moninder Singh Modgil, Dnyandeo Dattatray Patil
Comments: 155 Pages.
This book grew out of a short paper, Linguistics in the Time Cycle, in which we sketched a single conjecture: that language is not merely something that changes in time but something that is organised by time, across many nestedscales at once. The paper proposed an analogy—language as a temporally regulated system, parallel in its architecture to the way genetic information is expressed, regulated, and inherited through biological time. What began as a set of tables and suggestive parallels seemed to invite a fuller treatment. The present monograph is that treatment. The argument is interdisciplinary by necessity. To speak of language in time is to borrow at once from chronobiology and phonology, from populationgenetics and historical linguistics, from Bakhtin’s poetics of the chronotope andfrom the mathematics of dynamical systems. We have tried throughout to keep the analogy disciplined: an analogy is a scaffold for hypotheses, not a proof, and the value of the LTC framework lies in the concrete, testable questions it makes it natural to ask. Each chapter therefore closes by pointing toward empirical or computational work that could confirm or refute the picture it paints.
Category: Linguistics
[4] ai.viXra.org:2606.0042 [pdf] submitted on 2026-06-15 20:59:49
Authors: Brent Hartshorn
Comments: 6 Pages. https://github.com/brentharts/introspecter
We describe a small system that treats the question "what is a self?" not as a thesis tobe proved but as an inquiry to be staged : made visible, evolved in documented steps, andshared. The system is a single PDF that carries its own source code as embedded file streams;a short appendix bootstrap extracts and runs that code to produce the next iteration. Itscontent is written in a small domain-specific language (DSL) whose symbols are simultaneouslymathematical notation, philosophical relations, and executable program. Each operator rendersas typeset mathematics, generates a natural-language question, and compiles to Python. Ahuman-in-the-loop step takes an "oracle" — a person, or a language model the person consults— that proposes the next evolution; symbolic statements are compiled to a fixed, sandboxed setof builder calls, while optional fenced code blocks may extend the engine itself, gated by explicithuman confirmation. We document the full pipeline, the minimal seed, and a worked examplein which the document grows a new relational operator. We are deliberate about what theinstrument does and does not establish: because the document can be rewritten to ask anything,the apparent depth of any stage is supplied by whoever authored it. The system is therefore afaithful instrument for staging an inquiry into selfhood; it is not, and by construction cannotbe, a demonstration that a self has emerged. We argue this honest framing is the interestingone.
Category: Linguistics
[3] ai.viXra.org:2605.0052 [pdf] submitted on 2026-05-24 22:49:25
Authors: Marek Koubek
Comments: 3 Pages. The language of the text is Czech.
This article presents a large-scale automated analysis of the phonetic adaptation of English loanwords in Czech, German, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. Utilizing the ALINE sequence alignment algorithm, a dataset of 52,445 English words with verified translations was processed (comprising 119,206 word—language pairs with attestation dates ranging from 1800 to 2026). The results reveal a typological gradient of average phonetic distance: German (0.322) < Spanish (0.343) < Czech (0.350) < Korean (0.406) < Chinese (0.536). Domain analysis indicates that technological and scientific terminology exhibits a lower phonetic distance than social and political terminology. The temporal trend hypothesis is partially confirmed: German, Korean, and Chinese exhibit a negative trend, whereas Spanish displays a positive trend. The trend of global Anglicization is most pronounced in the period prior to 2000. A Kruskal—Wallis test confirms significant cross-linguistic differences ($H = 37,309$, $p < 0.001$).
Category: Linguistics
[2] ai.viXra.org:2601.0067 [pdf] submitted on 2026-01-17 20:46:40
Authors: Steven Alexander Quevedo Vinueza
Comments: 6 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite listed scientific references; and the author's name should not be sued to name a formula/discovery)
The Voynich Manuscript (MS 408) has long been considered an indecipherable mystery, but our research shows it is actually a technical logbook produced by a 15th-century mechanical device. We propose that the manuscript records industrial processes for the Medici alum monopoly using the "[a newly proposed] Wheel"—a mechanical cipher tool. By simulating the device’s physical constraints, specifically a mechanism we call the "Gallow Lock," we have replicated the manuscript's unique patterns with high statistical accuracy. Our findings explain why traditional linguistic methods have failed: the text is a mechanical output rather than a natural language. This discovery links the manuscript to the engineering of the Florentine Renaissance and the secretive alum industry at Sancto Lazero, proving that the codex is a byproduct of industrial secrecy rather than mystical or linguistic intent.
Category: Linguistics
[1] ai.viXra.org:2505.0037 [pdf] submitted on 2025-05-05 10:04:56
Authors: Moninder Singh Modgil
Comments: 12 Pages.
This paper presents the framework of textit{Linguistics in the Time Cycle (LTC)}, a temporal-theoretical model that parallels the dynamics of genetic evolution. Drawing from the structure of Genetics in the Time Cycle (GTC), LTC explores how linguistic forms—phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic—evolve and are expressed through multiple temporal layers. These include micro-cycles (daily and cognitive rhythms), meso-cycles (developmental and generational changes), and macro-cycles (historical and cultural transformations). By mapping linguistic change to temporal structures, LTC offers an interdisciplinary methodology for understanding how time regulates and reshapes language across individual, societal, and evolutionary scales.
Category: Linguistics
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