semantic primes

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 3/17/2006 4:21:51 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:46:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [lojban] Re: organization of Lojban material
>
> Some of the toepics that are coming up as I
> prepare my paper on semantic primes for the
> Constructed Languages Conference, seem relevant
> to questions about organizing material for
> teaching/learning.
>
> Semantic primes per se are not the first things
> one learns as a child, nor are they the things
> out of which one builds one's other notions; they
> could be but the idea of a prime does not depend
> on that.  Nor the defining devices using primes
> necessarily foundational.  


I'd like to see definitions of Lojban words in Anna Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) terms, as well as definitions of Lojban words in the Lojban version of NSM.

stevo