# KEHOME/knowledge/theory/NaturalSemanticMetalanguage/prime.html # Oct/10/2003
category | old prime | new prime |
substantives |
I YOU SOMEONE SOMETHING PEOPLE |
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determiners |
THIS THE SAME OTHER |
SOME |
quantifiers |
ONE TWO MANY (MUCH) ALL |
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augmentor |
MORE |
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mental predicates |
THINK KNOW WANT FEEL |
SEE HEAR |
speech |
SAY |
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actions and events |
DO HAPPEN |
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non-mental predicates |
MOVE THERE IS (BE) ALIVE |
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evaluators |
GOOD BAD |
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descriptors |
BIG SMALL |
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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) |
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metapredicates |
NOT CAN VERY |
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interclausal linkers |
IF BECAUSE LIKE |
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imagination and possibility |
IF ... WOULD MAYBE |
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words |
WORD |
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 |