The topic of this paper is the representation of linguistic concepts as semantic frames. It presents the general structure of a lexical resource for the linguistic domain, here referred to as LingFN . This resource contains semantic frames for the linguistic terms and concepts found in traditional grammars. In addition, the paper illustrates how LingFN can be used for the natural language processing task of automatically extracting typological information from descriptive grammars which is otherwise attained manually at a greater cost.