The Natural Semantic Metalanguage

This site is dedicated to the Natural Semantic Metalanguage and its possible applications in language learning, endangered language revitalization and NLP.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in these pages are the author's, who cannot claim to represent the opinions of the linguists who work in the NSM paradigm, in primis Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard. For an introduction to the Natural Semantic Metalanguage and an extensive bibliography, see the NSM Homepage at University of New England.

Here you can find:

• Some basic information about NSM;
• NSM-DALIA, some Natural Language Processing tools applied to NSM;
• The drafts of some articles about those tools;
• Some language courses based on NSM.