Skip to content
Licensed Unlicensed Requires Authentication Published by De Gruyter Mouton February 26, 2008

Paraphrase is not enough

  • Chris Barker
From the journal

Abstract

In 1972, the publication of Wierzbicka's Semantic Primitives initiated the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to linguistic semantics. NSM sets out to analyze the meaning of natural language utterances using only paraphrases built from a set of concepts called semantic primes. The main hypothesis is that a definite small set of unanalyzable primes that occur in every natural language suffices to characterize all natural meaning.

Published Online: 2008-02-26
Published in Print: 2004-05-25

© Walter de Gruyter

Downloaded on 23.3.2023 from https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/thli.29.3.201/html
Scroll Up Arrow