# KEHOME/knowledge/theory/NaturalSemanticMetalanguage/prime.html
# Aug/11/2003
# Anna Wierzbicka, "Semantics Primes and Universals",
# Oxford University Press, 1996.
# p. 35: old primitives (well tested)
# p. 73: new primitives (more recent)
category old prime new prime
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substantives
I
YOU
SOMEONE
SOMETHING
PEOPLE
determiners
THIS
THE SAME
OTHER
SOME
quantifiers
ONE
TWO
MANY (MUCH)
ALL
augmentor
MORE
mental predicates
THINK
KNOW
WANT
FEEL
SEE
HEAR
speech
SAY
actions and events
DO
HAPPEN
non-mental predicates
MOVE
THERE IS
(BE) ALIVE
evaluators
GOOD
BAD
descriptors
BIG
SMALL
space
WHERE
UNDER
ABOVE
FAR
NEAR
SIDE
INSIDE
HERE
time
WHEN
BEFORE
AFTER
A LONG TIME
A SHORT TIME
NOW
partonomy and taxonomy
PART (OF)
KIND (OF)
metapredicates
NOT
CAN
VERY
interclausal linkers
IF
BECAUSE
LIKE
imagination and possibility
IF ... WOULD
MAYBE
words
WORD
# Cliff Goddard, "Polysemy: A Problem of Definition",
# pp. 129 - 151 in
# Yael Ravin and Claudia Leacock, "Polysemy:
# Theoretical and Computational Approaches",
# Oxford University Press, 2000.
# p. 131: proposed semantic primes
category prime
======== =====
substantives
I
YOU
SOMEONE
SOMETHING/THING
PEOPLE/PERSON
determiners
THIS
THE SAME
OTHER/ELSE
quantifiers
ONE
TWO
ALL
MANY/MUCH
SOME
mental predicates
WANT
FEEL
THINK
KNOW
SEE
HEAR
speech
SAY
WORD
actions, events, movement
DO
HAPPEN
MOVE
existence
THERE IS
life
LIVE
DIE
evaluators and descriptors
GOOD
BAD
BIG
SMALL
time
WHEN/TIME
NOW
BEFORE
AFTER
A LONG TIME
A SHORT TIME
FOR SOME TIME
space
WHERE/PLACE
HERE
ABOVE
BELOW
NEAR
FAR
SIDE
INSIDE
logical concepts
NOT
MAYBE
IF
CAN
BECAUSE
intensifier, augmentor
VERY
MORE
taxonomy, partonomy
KIND OF
PART OF
similarity
LIKE