The paper outlines the basics of data collection, analysis and visualization under the frame-
based approach to lexical typology and illustrates its methodology using the data of cross …

Languages are known to describe the world in diverse ways. Across lexicons, diversity is
pervasive, appearing through phenomena such as lexical gaps and untranslatability …

Languages differ in how they divide up the world into concepts and words; eg, in contrast to
English, Swahili has a single concept forbelly'andwomb'. We investigate these differences in …

We describe two mathematical representations for what have come to be called “semantic
maps”, that is, representations of typological universals of linguistic co-expression with the …

In this paper we focus on patterns of colexification (co-expressions of form-meaning
mapping in the lexicon) as an aspect of lexical-semantic organization, and use them to build …

In comparative linguistics, colexification refers to the phenomenon of a lexical form
conveying two or more distinct meanings. Existing work on colexification patterns relies on …

This paper describes a method to enrich lexical resources with content relating to linguistic
diversity, based on knowledge from the field of lexical typology. We capture the …

Introduction The directionality of semantic change is problematic in traditional comparative
models of language reconstruction. Compared to, eg, phonological and morphological …

Colexification occurs when two distinct concepts are lexified by the same word. The term
covers both polysemy and homonymy. We posit and investigate the hypothesis that no pair …

In this paper, we present an overview of the methods associated with semantic maps,
focusing on current challenges and new avenues for research in this area, which are at the …