Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Anna Wierzbicka / 27 APR 2015
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi150/abstract
[NSM] has a minilexicon of 65 semantic primes or “atoms of meaning” (e.g., “good” and “bad,” “do” and “happen”) and 50 or so universal “semantic molecules” (e.g., “man,” “woman,” and “child”; “fire” and “water”) and a minigrammar.
NSM & BASIC ENGLISH
I'm now looking if a paper exists bridging BASIC ENGLISH and Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Ogden defined 20 000 English words in BASIC ENGLISH
if you can define all 850 BASIC ENGLISH CONCEPTS into the 65 semantic primes of NSM you would be pretty close of closing the semantic map of the English language ...
toot ! 🐘
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