“Global English, Minimal English: Towards better intercultural communication”

https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/hrc/u78/Global_English_Minimal_English%20position%20papers.pdf

Position Statement
Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka

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#SemanticPrimes

The NSM-LDOCE research dictionary served as the basis for creating Learn These Words First. New non-circular definitions for colour, number and shape were written and tested, so these three tentative primes could be removed. Other definitions were improved to eliminate more than half of the 700 words used as "semantic molecules" in NSM-LDOCE.

https://learnthesewordsfirst.com/about/research-behind-the-dictionary.html

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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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Semantic primes, semantic molecules, semantic templates:
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

#CliffGoddard #English #SemanticPrimes #SemanticMolecules #SemanticTemplates #nimi_pasila #Inli

The NSM-LDOCE research dictionary served as the basis for creating Learn These Words First. New non-circular definitions for colour, number and shape were written and tested, so these three tentative primes could be removed. Other definitions were improved to eliminate more than half of the 700 words used as "semantic molecules" in NSM-LDOCE.

http://learnthesewordsfirst.com/about/research-behind-the-dictionary.html

#SemanticMolecules #nimi_wan #sona_nimi #Inli #NSM #LDOCE #MultiLayerDictionary #NonCircularDictionary #NonCircularDefinitions #700molecules #nimi700 #level700 #selo700

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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700 'semantic molecules'

"The estimate of 700 'semantic molecules' is based on the statistics that are partially given in Appendix 2."

https://academic.oup.com/ijl/article-abstract/24/2/226/952719/NSM-LDOCE-A-Non-Circular-Dictionary-of-English?redirectedFrom=fulltext

unfortunately, I can't have access to that Appendix nor to the main paper ...

toot ! 🐘

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Semantic primes, semantic molecules, semantic templates:
Key concepts in the NSM approach to lexical typology
Cliff Goddard

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1ebf/2ef43b7bb3615e1d3e4c7a842e3be268b8c1.pdf

toot ! 🐘

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#SemanticTemplates
#nimi