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Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
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Minimal English for a Global World
Prof. Cliff Goddard (Griffith U) is giving an opening talk on Minimal English for a Global World at the Workshop on Minimal English and NSM semantics which was held at Australian National University on 17-18 March 2017.
Minimal English for a Global World
Selection of semantic molecules of English, grouped into categories (Goddard 2010)
parts of the body:
‘hands’, ‘mouth’, ‘eyes’, ‘ears’,
‘head’, ‘legs’, ‘feet’
physical descriptors:
‘long’, ‘round’, ‘flat’, ‘straight’, ‘hard’, ‘sharp’
physical activities:
‘sit’, ‘stand’, ‘lie’, ‘eat’, ‘drink’, ‘hold’
physical acts:
‘kill’, ‘pick up’, ‘bite’
expressive actions:
‘laugh’, ‘make sounds’, ‘sing’, ‘write’, ‘read’
topological:
‘top’, ‘bottom’, ‘front’, ‘edges’, ‘ends’, ‘hole’
life-forms:
‘creature’, ‘animal’, ‘bird’, ‘fish’, ‘tree’
environmental:
‘ground’, ‘sky’, ‘sun’, ‘water’, ‘fire’
times and places:
‘year’, ‘day’, ‘country’, ‘home’, ‘school’
materials:
‘wood’, ‘stone’, ‘metal’, ‘glass’, ‘paper’
mechanical:
‘wheel’, ‘pipe’, ‘wire’, ‘engine’, ‘electricity’, ‘machine’
social and family:
‘men’, ‘women’, ‘children’, ‘mother’, ‘father’
major cultural concepts:
‘money’, ‘book’, ‘colour’, ‘number’
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Key concepts in the NSM approach to lexical typology
Goddard, Cliff | 2012
https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle/10072/46996/78558_1.pdf
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Semantic primes, semantic molecules, semantic templates: Key concepts in the NSM approach to lexical typology
Cliff Goddard, University of New England, Australia
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1ebf/2ef43b7bb3615e1d3e4c7a842e3be268b8c1.pdf
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jansegersMinimal English for a Global World
Prof. Cliff Goddard (Griffith U) is giving an opening talk on Minimal English for a Global World at the Workshop on Minimal English and NSM semantics which was held at Australian National University on 17-18 March 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjbH-YUk1Fw
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