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

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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 borders. 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.

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  1. Institute of Geodesy, RG Geoinformation, Graz University of Technology, Steyrergasse 30, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Johannes Scholz & Norbert Bartelme

  2. Department for E-Governance and Administration, Danube University Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500, Krems, Austria

    Thomas J. Lampoltshammer

  3. Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Eveline Wandl-Vogt

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Scholz, J., Lampoltshammer, T.J., Bartelme, N., Wandl-Vogt, E. (2016). Spatial-temporal Modeling of Linguistic Regions and Processes with Combined Indeterminate and Crisp Boundaries. In: Gartner, G., Jobst, M., Huang, H. (eds) Progress in Cartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19602-2_9

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