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Many languages, one knowledge base

Introducing a collaborative ontolinguistic research tool

Abstract

Linguists traditionally have published their research in book and paper publications. However, advances in technology enable new innovative electronic dissemination paths, coupled with an immediate reuse potential and flexible accessibility of both the data and their analysis. In this chapter, a new computational research tool that is currently still under development is presented: TYTO (‘Typology Tool’) is specifically tailored to typological work carried out by a group of researchers. The first application domain of TYTO is social cognition and its cross-linguistic grammaticalisation. I outline TYTO’s features, describe its backbone ontology, and in what way it is envisaged to be able to support typologists and other linguists in their work. Keywords: e-research; ontology; social cognition; typology; TYTO

Abstract

Linguists traditionally have published their research in book and paper publications. However, advances in technology enable new innovative electronic dissemination paths, coupled with an immediate reuse potential and flexible accessibility of both the data and their analysis. In this chapter, a new computational research tool that is currently still under development is presented: TYTO (‘Typology Tool’) is specifically tailored to typological work carried out by a group of researchers. The first application domain of TYTO is social cognition and its cross-linguistic grammaticalisation. I outline TYTO’s features, describe its backbone ontology, and in what way it is envisaged to be able to support typologists and other linguists in their work. Keywords: e-research; ontology; social cognition; typology; TYTO

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. List of contributors ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. Practical theories and empirical practice – facets of a complex interaction 1
  6. Part I. Empirical practice
  7. The embodiment of linguistic meaning 35
  8. Infants’ encoding of social interaction as a conceptual foundation for the acquisition of argument structure 55
  9. Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila 71
  10. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction 99
  11. Many languages, one knowledge base 129
  12. Part II. Practical theories
  13. Nen assentives and the phenomenon of dialogic parallelisms 159
  14. Evidentiality, modality, focus and other puzzles 185
  15. Does Searle’s challenge affect chances for approximating assertion and quotative modal wollen ? 245
  16. The pragmatics of argumentation 257
  17. Implicature of complex sentences in error models 273
  18. The semantics of functional spaces 307
  19. Language index 325
  20. Name index 327
  21. Subject index 333
Practical Theories and Empirical Practice
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.40.06sch

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. List of contributors ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. Practical theories and empirical practice – facets of a complex interaction 1
  6. Part I. Empirical practice
  7. The embodiment of linguistic meaning 35
  8. Infants’ encoding of social interaction as a conceptual foundation for the acquisition of argument structure 55
  9. Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila 71
  10. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction 99
  11. Many languages, one knowledge base 129
  12. Part II. Practical theories
  13. Nen assentives and the phenomenon of dialogic parallelisms 159
  14. Evidentiality, modality, focus and other puzzles 185
  15. Does Searle’s challenge affect chances for approximating assertion and quotative modal wollen ? 245
  16. The pragmatics of argumentation 257
  17. Implicature of complex sentences in error models 273
  18. The semantics of functional spaces 307
  19. Language index 325
  20. Name index 327
  21. Subject index 333
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