Editing Natural semantic metalanguage (section)

{{Short description|Linguistic theory of semantic description}}
{{Linguistics}}

'''Natural semantic metalanguage''' ('''NSM''') is a linguistic theory that reduces lexicons down to a set of [[semantic primitives]]. It is based on the conception of Polish professor [[Andrzej Bogusławski]]. The theory was formally developed by [[Anna Wierzbicka]] at [[Warsaw University]] and later at the [[Australian National University]] in the early 1970s,<ref name="Lexical Meaning">{{Cite book|title=Lexical Meaning|last=Murphy|first=M. Lynne|publisher=Cambridge|year=2010|isbn=978-0521677646|pages=69–73}}</ref> and [[Cliff Goddard]] at [[Australia]]'s [[Griffith University]].<ref name="Meaning and Universal Grammar">{{Cite book|title=Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and Empirical Findings|editor-last=Goddard|editor-first=Cliff|editor2-first=Anna|editor2-last=Wierzbicka|publisher=John Benjamins|year=2002|isbn=9781588112644|location=Amsterdam}}</ref>