Editing Natural semantic metalanguage (section)

===Explications===
A semantic analysis in the NSM approach results in a reductive paraphrase called an explication that captures the meaning of the concept explicated.<ref name="Semantic Analysis">{{Cite book|title=Semantic Analysis|last=Goddard|first=Cliff|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|isbn=9780199560288}}</ref> An ideal explication can be substituted for the original expression in context without change of meaning.

For example: ''Someone X broke something Y'':

:someone X did something to something Y
:because of this, something happened to Y at the same time
:it happened in one moment
:because of this, after this Y was not one thing anymore
:people can think about it like this: "it can't be one thing anymore"<ref>{{cite web|last=Goddard|first=Cliff|title=The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach|url=http://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/419064/Goddard_2010_OUP_Handbook_Ch18.pdf|website=Griffith University|access-date=27 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605051950/http://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/419064/Goddard_2010_OUP_Handbook_Ch18.pdf|archive-date=5 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>