UniMet: Universal Metonymy
This resource currently contains 26,702 metonymy instances of 189 languages across 24 metonymy patterns. The paper link is here. https://psyarxiv.com/f6yjt/
World’s languages in UniMet
The presence of metonymy in world’s languages (the same colors indicate the same family)
Data descriptions
| # | column | description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | index | metonymy instance index |
| 2 | language | language ISO-3 code |
| 3 | family | language family |
| 4 | genus | language genus |
| 5 | src_domain | source domain |
| 6 | trg_domain | target domain |
| 7 | form | metonymy form |
| 8 | type | metonymy type |
| 9 | concept_a | the source concept's wordnet 3.0 id |
| 10 | concept_b | the target concept's wordnet 3.0 id |
| 11 | description_a | description of the source concept |
| 12 | description_b | description of the target concept |
| 13 | english_word_a | English words of the source concept |
| 14 | english_word_b | English words of the target concept |
| 15 | glotcode | language's glottolog code |
Reference
@misc{khishigsuren_bella_brochhagen_marav_giunchiglia_batsuren_2022,
title={Metonymy as a Universal Cognitive Phenomenon: Evidence from Multilingual Lexicons},
url={psyarxiv.com/f6yjt},
DOI={10.31234/osf.io/f6yjt},
publisher={CogSci 2022},
author={Khishigsuren, Temuulen and Bella, Gábor and Brochhagen, Thomas and Marav, Daariimaa and Giunchiglia, Fausto and Batsuren, Khuyagbaatar},
year={2022},
month={May}
}