Semantic typology and spatial conceptualization

Conceptualization and Typology of Guidance in Information Systems

Organizations use intelligent systems, a special kind of information system, to provide knowledge and guidance for their employees in their daily work. Concepts of guidance have been researched in the Information Systems community and related communities for decades. But due to the missing of a common concept and typology of guidance it is hard to compare the findings of the existing research s...

Semantic typology and efficient communication

Cross-linguistic work on domains including kinship, color, folk biology, number, and spatial relations has documented the different ways in which languages carve up the world into named categories. Although word meanings vary widely across languages, unrelated languages often have words with similar or identical meanings, and many logically possible meanings are never observed. We review work s...

Conceptualization of Pain: A Database for Lexical Typology

Spatial Order and Typology of Hakka Dwellings

Hakka dwellings are well known as the circular and square or rectangular shaped Tulou (rammed earth construction houses). These domiciles in which those known as the Hakka live are located at the border regions of the three provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong. It is generally known that the Hakka are Han Chinese, moved southward around the 4th century from the Central Plain of the Huangh...

Space in semantic typology: Object-centered geometries

1. Introduction In this chapter, we introduce and discuss the hypothesis that the pervasive use of shape-based meronymy as a resource for the expression of spatial relations in a language may bias its speakers against the use of relative frames of reference (FoRs). This hypothesis is currently being tested in the project " Spatial Language and Cognition in Mesoamerica " (MesoSpace). The Mesoame...