“Linguistics Theory of Everything (ToE)” aims to unify linguistics with physics, mathematics, biology, and social sciences into a grand unified framework. It articulates a novel theory that positions linguistics not merely as a tool for communication but as a foundational discipline that governs and interlinks all complex systems, including life and physical universe systems.

Overview of Linguistics ToE and Its Integration with Other Sciences

The Linguistics ToE is part of a broader Theory of Everything encompassing five sub-books: Physics ToE, Math ToE, Bio-Lives ToE, Linguistics ToE, and Social Science ToE. The linguistics component is designed to unify all human languages and provide a basis for a universal, perfect language called PreBabel. This theory emphasizes the essence of intelligence as expressed through language and proposes that linguistics principles are universal, applying across disciplines.

Core Principles

• Spider Web Principle (SWP): Describes language creation starting from total freedom, which is broken as soon as the first linguistic element is established, leading to a Gödel system with internal consistency and frameworks unique to each language.
• Martian Language Law (MLL): States that all human languages share an identical metalanguage, allowing communication even with hypothetical Martian languages. All language structures are subsets of a universal language structure, characterized by permanent confinement, infinite flexibility, and total freedom.
• Three-Tier Hierarchies: Linguistics is modeled as a hierarchy of Formal Systems (consistency), Gödel Systems (incompleteness and leaks), and Life Systems (mutual immanence and permanent confinement), paralleling structures in mathematics and physics.
• Large Complex System Principle (LCSP): Asserts that principles governing large complex systems (numbers, physics, life, linguistics) correspond to each other, leading to the Linguistics Occam’s Razor which states that any final theory must be encompassed by linguistics principles.

Super Unified Linguistic Theory (SULT)

SULT constructs a “linguistic universe” with precise definitions of languages, words, phrases, and sentences, governed by operators and six axioms that determine language types ranging from “type 0” (conceptual languages like Chinese) to “type 1” (perceptual languages like English). It introduces operators of pidginning and creoling to describe language evolution along a linear spectrum.

Language Types and Axioms

• Axioms: Include similarity transformation, predicative, inflection, redundancy, non-communicative (word order), and exception axioms, each active or inactive, defining language structure.
• Type 0 and Type 1 Languages: English is classified as type 1 with all axioms active, while Chinese is type 0′ with some axioms inactive and fuzzy word order.
• Functional Equivalence: Major natural languages are functionally equivalent in word and syntax sets, allowing mutual translation and encoding with a universal root word set.

PreBabel: The Universal Language

PreBabel is the proposed universal language emerging from encoding natural languages with a closed set of root words (PB set). It is an oligosynthetic root set capable of encoding all natural languages, forming a logically linked linear chain of vocabulary that preserves meaning and pronunciation. PreBabel is silent and ideographic, allowing pronunciation to be assigned by user communities, and supports dialects corresponding to natural languages.

Construction and Features

• Root Word Set: Comprises 241 ideographic root words representing universal concepts such as energy, human faculties, natural and manmade objects, qualities, and abstract notions.
• Encoding Process: Words are encoded regressively via root words forming generations of vocabulary with mnemonic properties, facilitating easier language acquisition.
• Phonemics: Root words are mute but can be assigned phonemes by language communities; phonetic alphabets are constructed to ensure pronunciation consistency.
• Grammar: PreBabel grammar is based on fractal self-similarity transformations ensuring unique sentence meanings without requiring traditional inflections or punctuation.
• Numerals: Introduces an extended numeral system addressing mathematical completeness and continuity issues, including “dark moment numbers” and additional glyphs beyond Arabic numerals.

Benefits and Applications

• Language Acquisition: PreBabel revolutionizes learning, especially second languages, by reducing vocabulary learning effort by about 95% and providing mnemonic anchors.
• Translation: Enables true auto-translation machines by mapping vocabulary through PreBabel root words, facilitating syntax, semantic, cultural, and situational translation paths.
• AI Guidelines: Provides foundational principles for artificial intelligence language processing.

Essence and Framework of Linguistics in ToE

Linguistics is framed as an FGL (Formal-Gödel-Life) system, where:

• Formal Systems represent ordered, consistent systems.
• Gödel Systems incorporate incompleteness and self-referential loops.
• Life Systems embrace contradictions and renormalization, reflecting intelligence and language essence.

This framework explains the hierarchical and self-referential nature of language, the coexistence of contradictions (mutual immanence), and the management of infinities (renormalization) within linguistic systems, paralleling biological processes such as DNA replication.

Scope of Linguistics and the Concept of Perfect Language

Linguistics extends beyond human natural languages to any system capable of describing a universe. Languages are defined as systems (T) describing universes (U), with varying complexity from computable to uncountable infinite universes. Human natural languages possess the capacity to describe even “weird” universes such as theological or paradoxical concepts, qualifying them as ideal languages.

Perfect Language Attributes

• Finite number of tokens constructing unlimited vocabulary.
• Pronunciation and meaning discernible from word form.
• Efficiency in learning and usage.

The traditional Chinese written system is argued to be a perfect language, possessing these attributes through its root word system and phonetic modules, contrary to prior assumptions of its complexity.

New Paradigm of Linguistics: Language Acquisition and Linguistics Occam’s Razor

The new paradigm challenges traditional beliefs by categorizing languages into three types based on data set complexity:

• Type A: Chaotic data sets with arbitrary vocabulary.
• Type B: Axiomatic data sets derived from finite roots and rules.
• Type C: Hybrid types.

It posits that second language learners can acquire Type B languages more easily than their first language or native speakers can. The paradigm also introduces Linguistics Occam’s Razor, stating that any final scientific theory must be encompassed by linguistics principles, underscoring linguistics as a foundational science.

Implications for Physics

The linguistics framework predicts that the Higgs boson and mechanism do not align with the “bottoming” principle of linguistics and thus cannot represent final physical theories. It also identifies four fundamental numbers (3, π, 7, 64) as essential pillars for renormalization in physics (see book one).

Conclusion

The Linguistics ToE presents a unified, axiomatic, and hierarchical framework integrating linguistics with other scientific domains. It introduces PreBabel as a theoretically and practically viable universal language, grounded in a closed root word set and self-similar grammatical structures. The theory redefines language acquisition, translation, and cognitive processing, asserting linguistics principles as fundamental to all valid theories in science and society.

For {Linguistics ToE}, see the pdf below.