renaming morph:(P/p)aradigm

The issue

In theoretical morphology, the term "paradigm" is used to refer to the set of word forms of a given lexeme -- or, from a more abstract perspective, the set of feature-value specifications for which lexemes of a given lexical category are inflected. However, currently the class morph:Paradigm appears to behave like a set of inflection rules, rather than word forms. Therefore, it seems to correspond to an "inflection class" in morphological terms. This is also consistent with the current definition

Class morph:Paradigm represents a theoretically motivated type of declension

(although this would probably better be stated more generally rather than only regarding "declension", i.e. nominal inflection)

Below are two alternative proposals that I make to better reflect this state of affairs.

1. My proposal

morph:Paradigm > morph:InflectionClass morph:paradigm > morph:inflectionClass

PRO
- only a naming change with no consequences on the structure of the model
CON
- risk of confusion with rdf:Class? (cf. observation by Gilles Sérasset in previous telcos)
- risk of confusion with morph:InflectionType?

2. Alternative proposal

morph:Paradigm > morph:morphologicalPattern

PRO
- consistent with the fact that the class fills the gap in the range of the core ontolex property ontolex:morphologicalPattern, whose range was left unspecified, to be specified in more specific vocabularies -- what is now accomplished with Morph
CON
- requires thiking about another name for the associated property, that cannot simply become morphologicalPattern, as this is already the name of the core ontolex property linking to ontolex:LexicalEntry

A related issue

As hinted above, with the first option there is also some risk of confusion with the already existing Morph class and property morph:InflectionType and morph:inflectionType, respectively.

Indeed, I personally find also these names to be not immediately suggestive of the behavior of the class and associated property. Furthermore, there is also the risk of confusion with the already existing class lila:InflectionType and property lila:hasInflectionType, that are actually used for types of conjugation/declension in Latin. Therefore, I would also propose to rename:

morph:InflectionClass > morph:InflectionSlot morph:inflectionType > morph:inflectionSlot

which also seems more consistent with the current definition

Class morph:InflectionType represents a single slot for all values of a grammatical category or, in the case of bundles of grammatical categories, for all combinations of values thereof

where the term slot is explicitly used.

To summarize, my personal preference is for option 1, i.e. renaming P/paradigm to I/inflectionClass, with the additional renaming of I/inflectionType to I/inflectionSlot -- but I am looking forward to hear what your opinions are.

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