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Natural semantic metalanguage

Natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) is a linguistic theory that reduces lexicons down to a set of semantic primitives. It is based on the conception of Polish professor Andrzej Bogusławski. The theory was formally developed by Anna Wierzbicka at Warsaw University and later at the Australian National University in the early 1970s, and Cliff Goddard at…

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Semantic primes

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Natural semantic metalanguage

Nodes68
Edges67
Triples15
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029412
Components1

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related to Minimal English · 10
Natural semantic metalanguage → As, Basic English, English, Englishes, It, Minimal English, Minimal Finnish, Minimal French, Minimal Polish, Sanaa
related to Approach · 5
Natural semantic metalanguage → Key, NSM, Primes, Research, The

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semantic primes wierzbicka english anna nsm universal goddard metalanguage languages university cliff theory molecules language semantics natural minimal using meaning

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Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to ApproachThe0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to ApproachNSM0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to ApproachPrimes0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to ApproachResearch0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to ApproachKey0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to Minimal EnglishMinimal English0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to Minimal EnglishIt0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to Minimal EnglishEnglish0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to Minimal EnglishAs0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to Minimal EnglishMinimal French0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to Minimal EnglishMinimal Polish0.60section
Natural semantic metalanguagerelated to Minimal EnglishSanaa0.60section

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