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RESEARCH AT THE ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Methods made visible.
Results made citable.

Each research track tests the Atlas against an external body of knowledge without surrendering its own conceptual distinctions. The bilingual reports document sources, method, decisions, limits and reproducible results.

01German and English02Stable report version03Transparent evidence and limits
01GESAMTFORSCHUNG
Published · DOI

Research Strands in the Atlas of Language

The bilingual overall report brings together eight published research strands in resonance design. It distinguishes five canonically effective strands from three research-only strands, documents the first failed Mapping Metaphor closure attempt and keeps the ninth catalogue strand on Chinese rhetoric visibly in source review.

Portfolio synthesis with separate source, research, integration, publication and layout gates. Historical capacity figures remain frozen; missing values are not retrospectively invented. The report creates no new Inbox, Atlas, migration, human-validation or media-validation result.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): Research Strands in the Atlas of Language. Overall Research Report in Resonance Design. Version 1.4. Atlas of Language / Atelier der Resonanzen. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22754700

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02CLICS
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CLICS and cross-linguistic meaning networks

The full survey documents cross-linguistic colexifications and 726 approved paths of thought; 129 findings remain explicitly withheld. It reveals recurring semantic transitions without equating concept correspondence with mere network proximity.

Evidence-secured colexification analysis with strictly separated Atlas, Concepticon and CLICS IDs and documented source, review and release states. External human specialist review was not a prerequisite and was not performed.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): Atlas of Language – CLICS Publication Corpus. Version 1.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22691224

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03WORDNET
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Princeton WordNet as an external diagnostic instrument

The completed research strand documents the WordNet 3.0 screening of all 1,028 original Atlas concepts, Review 11, manual auditing of 196 single-sense hits and targeted lexicalization QA of 625 NO_MATCH cases. After editorial Gate 284 and four duplicate merges, the canonical release contains 342 sense-key crosswalks for 301 concepts and four persistent legacy-ID redirects.

Sense-key-based full comparison with separate gloss, domain, granularity and ontological-type checks; 155 of 196 apparently unambiguous hits were accepted and 41 rejected. The canonical gate preserves 320 provenance operations, imports 307 new crosswalks and keeps research evidence, external IDs and Atlas identity separate.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): Atlas der Sprache – Princeton WordNet Crosswalk Dataset. Version 2.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22713535

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04FRAMENET
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FrameNet and the framing of linguistic scenes

The full review of all 1,028 Atlas concepts yields 532 accepted crosswalks for 465 concepts. Frames, frame elements and lexical units remain separate; 563 concepts retain no positive crosswalk after documented review.

Separate scholarly review batches, typed additive V2 crosswalks, documented negative findings and transactional readback; internal Atlas relations remain independent.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): Atlas der Sprache – FrameNet Crosswalk Dataset. Version 1.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22713158

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05WALS
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WALS as a space of typological evidence

The research track binds language-specific structural evidence to explicitly bounded Atlas claims. Thirty-six evidence-only records for 18 concepts and nine typological crosswalks keep feature, value, language and Atlas interpretation separate.

Release-bound WALS and CLDF evidence, supplementary scholarly sources and a dedicated feature-value-language crosswalk layer; no universality or identity claim is inferred from individual language values.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): Atlas der Sprache – WALS Evidence and Typological Crosswalk Dataset. Version 1.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22713208

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06HTE
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Historical Thesaurus of English as a historical evidence layer

A bounded pilot covering 28 Atlas concepts yields 21 owner-accepted, scope-typed HTE evidence links; four contextual findings and three negative findings remain visibly separate. Evidence IDs 1719–1739 add to the Atlas without changing concepts, definitions, relations or translations.

Bounded manual review against HTE 5.0, a four-stage AI challenge pass and a controlled evidence-only import in the resonance design ‘evidence · delimit · distinguish’. Source finding, Atlas interpretation and acceptance remain separate. The public dataset contains only project-authored decisions and citation links, not HTE raw data, hierarchy, lemma or dating exports; HTE remains copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): Historical Thesaurus of English und der Atlas der Sprache / Historical Thesaurus of English and the Atlas of Language. Version 1.2.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22752606

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07CASSIN
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Cassin and the Work of Untranslatability

Twelve concept cases and 24 published translation paths examine non-equivalence and the limits of translation. Adjudication yields A=4, B=13, C=5 and X=2; unresolved cases remain visible.

Source and rights checks, primary texts, lexicography, same-passage comparisons, countermodels and two separate AI blind runs with adjudication. The runs test internal consistency but do not replace independent human or culturally specific review. The Ubuntu case remains explicitly unresolved; no canonical Atlas integration is claimed. CC BY 4.0 applies only to project-created material, not to third-party source texts or protected translations.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): Cassin and the Work of Untranslatability: Bilingual Research Reports and Dataset. Version 1.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22736783

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08ILIESI
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ILIESI and historical interpretation of Atlas concepts

The expanded pilot examines eight Atlas concepts in seven cases using 15 evidence records concerning three authors. Perspective and analogy or metaphor provide the strongest additions. Further in-depth research remains deferred.

Source-based contextual reading and historical comparison in resonance design with separate source, evidence and decision registers. Translations of one passage are not independent findings. Edition and facsimile reservations remain open; the work is AI-assisted, without independent human review or canonical integration. The public Zenodo record does not assign an additional open reuse licence.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): ILIESI für den Atlas der Sprache / ILIESI for Atlas der Sprache: Prüfungsbericht und Forschungsdokumentation / Evaluation report and research documentation. Version 1.1. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22749535

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09MAPPING-METAPHOR
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Mapping Metaphor and Atlas der Sprache

The completed research-only strand examines how the Metaphor Map of English can inform ten prioritized Atlas concepts without identifying historical categories, word forms, theoretical constructs or Atlas IDs. Eight cases are supported with explicit scope boundaries and two are partly supported; the first failed closure attempt and its methodological correction remain transparently documented.

Source- and corpus-based case analysis with counterevidence, null findings, separate evidence layers and a local R1–R5 resonance model. The thirty AI-internal checking passages test internal consistency and falsifiability rather than human reliability. Human and media validation were not performed. Research dataset V1.2 is publicly available under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22735837; this research-only publication changes neither the Inbox nor the canonical Atlas corpus or migrations.
Recommended citation

Reich, Michael (2026): Mapping Metaphor and Atlas der Sprache Research-Only Evidence and Methods Dataset. Version 1.2. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735837

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10ZH-RHETORIC
Source and subject review

Chinese rhetoric in cross-linguistic comparison

This research track studies Chinese figures of speech, correspondences and productive differences in relation to the German and English Atlas, including culturally distinct movements of thought.

Comparative source analysis, terminological structure review and separate native-speaker approvals for zh-Hans-CN and zh-Hant-TW.
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PRINCIPLES AND CORE COMPETENCIES

What belongs in this atlas.

The Atlas of Language is neither a dictionary of foreign terms nor a complete encyclopedia of linguistics. It maps figures of speech, expressive forms, and cultural forms of language that reveal what words do to thought, perception, and human interaction.

A term enters when it …

  • changes meaning through a recognizable linguistic form
  • directs attention, expectation, memory, or perspective
  • creates tension, ambiguity, condensation, displacement, or omission
  • has a culturally revealing use
  • reveals a distinctive movement of thought
  • opens crossways to perception, body, conversation, narrative, logic, knowledge, or resonance
  • can be experienced, shown, or traversed

Not a glossary

Technical system terms and interchangeable subclassifications do not become profiles merely because they exist. They remain explanatory layers, variants, cross-references, or background concepts.

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Figures of speech

The heart of the atlas.

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Cultural forms

Languages organize and condense experience differently.

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Orientation concepts

The explanatory framework.

We map not the vocabulary of linguistics, but the efficacy of linguistic forms.

A guiding trace

The Atlas of Language does not merely map what words mean.It shows where thought can travel from them.
More ways through the Atlas

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