• 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...
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  • cross-cultural linguistics, especially for the natural semantic metalanguage and the concept of semantic primes. Her research agenda resembles Gottfried...
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  • Metaphilosophy – Investigation of the nature of philosophy Natural semantic metalanguage – Linguistic theory of semantic description Nested quotation Paralanguage –...
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  • Meta' language, spoken in Cameroon Natural semantic metalanguage, a linguistic theory reducing lexicons to sets of semantic primitives This disambiguation...
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  • hypothesis – Hypothesis of philosopher Jerry Fodor Natural semantic metalanguage – Linguistic theory of semantic description Philosophical language – Any constructed...
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  • breaks each concept semantically down into a set of semantic primes. The primes are taken from the theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage, which has been...
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  • avoid causing unnecessary confusion. In the natural semantic metalanguage theory, explications are semantic representations of vocabulary. These explications...
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  • talking (the metalanguage). In the following, quoted text is use of the object language, while unquoted text is use of the metalanguage; a quoted sentence...
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  • appearance (e.g. the colour of their wings). Due to his focus upon natural semantic metalanguage, Ghil'ad Zuckermann considers such minute distinctions between...
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  • representation theory, intensional logic, first-order logic, and natural semantic metalanguage. Lexical functional grammar Asudeh, Ash; Crouch, Richard (2001)...
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  • Engineered language Ideal language philosophy Linguistic philosophy Natural semantic metalanguage Edmonds, George. A Universal Alphabet, Grammar, and Language...
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  • atomism Logical constant Mathematical logic Notion (philosophy) Natural semantic metalanguage More generally, in a formal system, rules restrict the use of...
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  • generally does not involve prior semantic understanding of the documents. Semantic analysis strategies include: Metalanguages based on first-order logic, which...
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  • hypothetic irreducible semantic core of all languages. A modern variant of this approach can be found in the natural semantic metalanguage of Anna Wierzbicka...
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    grammar, culture, and social structure, using the framework of Natural Semantic Metalanguage to elucidate cultural scripts and interactional resources. A...
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    Semantics (redirect from Semantic)
    the metalanguage are taken from the English language. Lexical semantics is the sub-field of semantics that studies word meaning. It examines semantic aspects...
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  • research. Here the decomposition takes advantage of the semantic primes of the natural semantic metalanguage to determine a termination criterion of the decomposition...
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    Ontology (information science) (category Semantic Web)
    Characteristica universalis Interoperability Level of measurement Metalanguage Natural semantic metalanguage Dale Jacquette (2002-11-26). Ontology. McGill–Queen's...
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  • Australia. He is, with Anna Wierzbicka, a leading proponent of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to linguistic analysis. Goddard's research has explored...
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  • written in its own metalanguage or an existing computer programming language. The process of a metacompiler, written in its own metalanguage, compiling itself...
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    and Cliff Goddard, argue that there is a Natural Semantic Metalanguage that has a basic vocabulary of semantic primes including concepts such as time,...
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  • Gujarat National Science Museum of Japan's collection code Natural semantic metalanguage, in linguistics Neurogenic stunned myocardium New Smoking Material...
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    English, The Hazards of English as a Default Language, written in Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), the universally convertible currency of communication...
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  • modern distinctions between use and mention, and between language and metalanguage. There is a tradition called speculative grammar which existed from the...
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    Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1058–72. Wong, J. O. (2001). The natural semantic metalanguage approach to the universal syntax of the Singlish existential...
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    she's credited with formulating the theory of natural semantic metalanguage and the concept of semantic primes. Mieczysław Wolfke: the forerunner of holography...
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  • denotational metalanguage. For example, denotational semantics of functional languages often translate the language into domain theory. Denotational semantic descriptions...
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  • Australian National University for developing the theory of the natural semantic metalanguage and discovering a set of elementary meanings common to all languages...
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  • Language Linguistic relativity Logical form Mental representation Metalanguage Modality (natural language) Presupposition Principle of compositionality Property...
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    analysis Anna Wierzbicka (1938–) – linguist, founder of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), based at the Australian National University (ANU), her...
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