Here we collect assorted types for linguistics and basic operations on those. We also provide some connectivity with other approaches in different languages. To this end, newtypes for types in LingPy are available: http://lingulist.de/lingpy/tutorial/formats.html
The BTI module provides an internalized Text type to speed up algorithms on short strings. This includes word and text alignments. BTI values can be unboxed.
Christian Hoener zu Siederdissen
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
choener@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de
http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/~choener/