Re: restricted semantics language
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 18:06 |
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In a message dated 6/3/2008 12:02:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
nils.schaeffer@GMAIL.COM writes:
> i wonder if anyone has got any sources/ideas to a priori languages where the
> main feature is a highly restricted semantics, say languages that are
> constructed around a set of sememes which are meant to be primitives out of
> which many possible meanings can be generated. i have read about
> wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage and have something similar in
> mind, but without the academic approach and with a larger corpus with
> perhaps hundreds of primitives.
>
I want to do something like this, but I am not good at defining words with
her primitives.
I hope to build a language from her primitives, from the bottom up, rather
than top-down, the way natlang definitions are done.
stevo </HTML>