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tagalog holds the key

explore the profound impact of the tagalog language on our understanding of language origins, cognition, and the very essence of human consciousness through the lens of luis umali stuart's ground breaking work.

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paano nga ba tayo nagkaroon ng kamalayan?

bakit iba’t iba ang mga wika nguni’t iisa ang mundong nilalaman?

saan nagmumula ang larawan ng buhay na ating pinaniniwalaan?

kung ano ang totoo at ano ang maaari?

akalain mo ba na sa tinagal-tagal ng panahon na walang makapagsabi,

may mga sagot pala na matutuklasan sa wikang tagalog?

halina’t basahin ang “the origins of language” ni ka luis umali stuart

at makilahok sa isang bago at malalim na pagtuklas.

THE

BOOK

OF THE

GRID

from the words we speak to the hidden meaning of things.

PURCHASE BOOK

LUIS UMALI STUART

the grid is a discovery in language by way of tagalog verbs, english keywords, and simple set theory. it originates from two instances of the same perfect 2x2 permutation found lurking in the play of roots and affixes in tagalog verb phrases, appearing to evidence in language a deep semantic structure of a mathematical nature, to wit a repeating combinatorial structure underlying our verb-building.

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praise for the grid

Antoine Culioli

TO BABEL AND BEYOND

"a very good piece of work... un analyse tres bonne e tres fine"

Tim Warner

TO BABEL AND BEYOND

"very impressive… fascinating stuff. I like the idea of recursive nesting of the grid, which would

make for great economy in underlying neural structure… I guess only a Tagalog speaker could tell, but it certainly persuades me."

Isagani Cruz

THE TAGALOG GRID

"groundbreaking… Truly amazing!"

Julie Linden-Pascal

TO BABEL AND BEYOND

"a new perspective and a reminder I am never too old to learn… well written, compelling, and important."

Isagani Cruz

TO BABEL AND BEYOND

"Wow! A great book!... I hope that your work with Tagalog will inspire someone to do the same

thing with English (and other languages)."

Nicole Revel

THE GRID

"a genuine discovery…"

Kie Zuraw

TO BABEL AND BEYOND

"a very thorough set of both syntactic and semantic features. Linguists often leave this kind of thing incompletely worked out, but for technological applications in Natural Language

Processing it's often important to have a fuller set…"

Rolando Dizon

THE TAGALOG GRID

"Great stuff, Louie! The creative juices haven't diminished in you at all."

Noam Chomsky

THE GRID

"intriguing… I don’t think that linguists these days would find the formalism daunting; they are

used to much more."

about the author

luis umali stuart studied mathematics under hugh albright at la salle university in philadelphia. his work in language includes pinoy translator: dictionary-thesaurus of modern filipino speech (1992) and the tagalog grid: a discovery in language by way of tagalog verbs (2012).

he lives in a wildlife refuge in rural quezon, where he works on the grid, makes paper from grass, and guards the community water. he is left-handed.

luis umali stuart studied mathematics under hugh albright at la salle university in philadelphia. his work in language includes pinoy translator: dictionary-thesaurus of modern filipino speech (1992) and the tagalog grid: a discovery in language by way of tagalog verbs (2012).

he lives in a wildlife refuge in rural quezon, where he works on the grid, makes paper from grass, and guards the community water. he is left-handed.

THE GRID

tagalog holds the key

tagalog holds the key

tagalog holds the key

paano nga ba tayo nagkaroon ng kamalayan?

bakit iba’t iba ang mga wika nguni’t iisa ang mundong nilalaman?

saan nagmumula ang larawan ng buhay na ating pinaniniwalaan?

kung ano ang totoo at ano ang maaari?

akalain mo ba na sa tinagal-tagal ng panahon na walang makapagsabi,

may mga sagot pala na matutuklasan sa wikang tagalog?

halina’t basahin ang “the origins of language” ni ka luis umali stuart

at makilahok sa isang bago at malalim na pagtuklas.

THE

THE

BOOK

BOOK

OF THE

OF THE

GRID

GRID

from the words we speak to the hidden meaning of things.

from the words we speak to the hidden meaning of things.

LUIS UMALI STUART

praise for the grid

Antoine Culioli

Tim Warner

Isagani Cruz

Julie Linden-Pascal

Isagani Cruz

Nicole Revel

Kie Zuraw

Rolando Dizon

Noam Chomsky

about the author

luis umali stuart studied mathematics under hugh albright at la salle university in philadelphia. his work in language includes pinoy translator: dictionary-thesaurus of modern filipino speech (1992) and the tagalog grid: a discovery in language by way of tagalog verbs (2012).

he lives in a wildlife refuge in rural quezon, where he works on the grid, makes paper from grass, and guards the community water. he is left-handed.

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