Re: Simple English
| From: | Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 13, 1999, 22:20 |
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Gerald Koenig <jlk@...> comunu:
> Jack Durst built the NGL core grammar with the Ogden set. Supposedly
> anything can be said by combining them.
> Anna Wierzbicka finds 89 words/concepts basic to all languages and builds
> a simplified universal grammar with them.
Do you have a list of them? What are the core verbs? I've been wondering a
lot about minimal verb sets lately...
Best regards,
Jeffrey Henning
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