Concepticon Explained

Concepticon
Producer:	Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Country:	Germany
Languages:	English
Cost:	Free
Disciplines:	Linguistics
Web:	concepticon.clld.org

Concepticon is an open-source^[1] online lexical database of linguistic concept lists (word lists). It links concept labels (i.e., word list glosses) in concept lists (i.e., word lists) to concept sets (i.e., standardized word meanings).^{[2] [3]}

It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data (CLLD) project, which is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.^[4] Version 1.0 was released in 2016.

Concept

Concept lists in the Concepticon include:

• Swadesh list (100 items, 207 items, etc.)
• Swadesh–Yakhontov list
• Dolgopolsky list
• Leipzig–Jakarta list
• ASJP list

See also

• Conceptualization (information science)
• Ontology (information science)
• Intercontinental Dictionary Series

References

• List, Johann Mattis & Rzymski, Christoph & Greenhill, Simon & Schweikhard, Nathanael & Pianykh, Kristina & Tjuka, Annika & Hundt, Carolin & Forkel, Robert (eds.) 2021. CLLD Concepticon 2.5.0 [Data set]. Zenodo.

External links

• • Langavia Dictionary
• Synonyms Dictionary

Notes and References

1. https://calc.hypotheses.org/2225 Adding concept lists to Concepticon: A guide for beginners
2. List, Johann-Mattis and Cysouw, Michael and Forkel, Robert. 2016. Concepticon: A Resource for the Linking of Concept Lists. In Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Marko Grobelnik and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis (eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2393-2400. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
3. List, Johann-Mattis (2018). "Exporting Sublists from a Wordlist with LingPy and Concepticon," in Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice. https://calc.hypotheses.org/58
4. Web site: Haspelmath. Martin. Martin Haspelmath. Max Planck diversity linguistics redux: Welcome to "Linguistic and Cultural Evolution" in Jena. 28 March 2015. Hypotheses: Diversity Linguistics Comment (blog).