# 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 ======== ========= ========= 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