The central purpose of this study is to apply the NSM (Natural Semantic Metalanguage) method semantic-conceptual analysis word money and related economic transaction verbs, such as buy, sell pay, used in everyday English. It proposes semantic explications for these words on basis conceptual a range linguistic evidence taking account lexical polysemy. Even its basic meaning (in sentence like the...

Starting form the analogy between a document tagged by a markup language (XML, SGML) and a source string generated by a BNF grammar, we argue that XML parsers should beneet from the addition of semantic attributes and functions. Currently XML only includes initialized lexical attributes. By our approach a XML parser would be extended into a syntax-directed translator. Deep transformations of a ...

This study proposes Natural Semantic Metalanguage semantic explications for the English words virus (in two senses), bacteria, germs, and related sick, ill, disease. We concentrate on their nave or folk meanings (Apresjan 1992) in everyday English, as opposed to scientific semi-scientific meanings. In this way, paper makes a start uncovering epidemiology embedded lexicon. The semantics of like ...

This paper discusses the problem of developing the metalanguage for linguistic applications and introduces a tag set for the semantic annotation of verbs for the Tatar National Corpus. At present, there are no generally accepted standards for the development of corpus semantic annotation. In many cases, it is made by individual researchers or teams for one or another research project, and chara...

Abstract This paper explores ways in which applied semantics (coming out of Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach) can inform effective communicative strategies for action on climate change. After framing discussion, it presents three case studies, are intentionally disparate nature: contrastive the expressions ‘climate crisis’, emergency’, and catastrophe’; a semantically-enhanced examination...

The Bible Translator’s Assistant (TBTA) is a natural language generator (NLG) designed specifically for field linguists doing translation work in minority languages. In particular, TBTA is intended to generate drafts of the narrative portions of the Bible as well as numerous community development articles in a very wide range of languages. TBTA uses the rich interlingua approach. The semantic r...