Natural Semantic Metalanguage
<p class="default">03:20 PM, August 17, 2007 
 
Natural Semantic Metalanguage: 
 
Anna Wierzbicka orig. in 1972. 
 
62 primitives: 
 
substantives: I, YOU, Someone, people, body, something 
 
mental predicates: think, know, want, feel, see, hear, be 
 
speech: say, word, tru 
 
action, events, mvmt: do, happen, move, put, go </p>