Spatial-temporal Modeling of Linguistic Regions and Processes with Combined Indeterminate and Crisp Boundaries [chapter]

Johannes Scholz, Thomas J. Lampoltshammer, Norbert Bartelme, Eveline Wandl-Vogt
2016 Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography  
The paper elaborates on the spatial-temporal modeling of linguistic and dialect phenomena. Language Geography-a branch of Human Geography-tries to enhance the visual exploration of linguistic data, and utilizes a number of methodologies from GIScience, whereas publications focusing on analyzing linguistic data in GIScience are hard to find. This research work highlights the representation of language and/or dialect regions with combined indeterminate and crisp boundaries-i.e. frontiers and
more » ... rs. Both boundary "types" are necessary in order to model the spatial-temporal dynamics of language phenomena. The article analyzes the emerging, ending, moving and merging of linguistic/dialect regions and phenomena with respect to space and time and the boundary types. In order to represent frontiers or indeterminate boundaries, fuzzy logic is employed.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19602-2_9 fatcat:ygtmj5ihjfamjade3kclmbde4i