Different from classification and taxonomy, typology meets the criteria of a theory and is a unique form of theory building. Typology is a good first step in exploring a research topic, and, therefore, we are concerned with building typological theories for underdeveloped topics with limited studies. We propose a four-step approach involving content analysis, multidimensional scaling, judgmenta...

This paper introduces a new computational approach for creative conceptual structural design, synthesizing an interactive evolutionary framework, a structural grammar strategy for trans-typological design, and a performance-focused surrogate modelling technique. By developing and integrating these three strategies into a unified design approach, this research enables architects and structural d...

Afroasiatic is the fourth largest linguistic phylum in the world, with about 375 living languages spoken by some 300 million speakers (www.ethnologue.org). In the view of the contributors to this volume, this number may well be an overestimation. For the Chadic family alone Ethnologue estimates over 190 languages, while most linguists working in the area estimate the number to be between 140 an...

This paper deals with the essential verb categories - grammatical of tense, aspect and mode, as well actionality a lexical functional category. These coexist in Slavic languages manifold correlations, determined by type language. The is focused on tense central In first part, there typological approach to verbal system proposed, base for its systematic description interpretation. Two prototypes...

For phylogenetic inference, linguistic typology is a promising alternative to lexical evidence because it allows us to compare an arbitrary pair of languages. A challenging problem with typology-based phylogenetic inference is that the changes of typological features over time are less intuitive than those of lexical features. In this paper, we work on reconstructing typologically natural ances...

Ernst Mayr’s typological/population distinction is a conceptual thread that runs throughout much of his work in systematics, evolutionary biology, and the history and philosophy of biology. Mayr himself claims that typological thinking originated in the philosophy of Plato and that population thinking was first introduced by Charles Darwin and field naturalists. A more proximate origin of the t...

The long term goal of this research is to develop a program able to produce an automatic segmentation and categorization of textual sequences into discourse types. In this preliminary contribution, we present the construction of an algorithm which takes a segmented text as input and attempts to produce a categorization of sequences, such as narrative, argumentative, descriptive and so on. Also,...