SEMANTIC Category | SEMANTIC Primes | |
Substantives | I, you, someone, people, something/thing, body | |
Relational Substantives | kind, part , organ | |
Determiners | this, the same, other~else~another | |
Quantifiers | one, two, some, all, much/many, little/few | |
Evaluators | good, bad | |
Descriptors | big, small | |
Mental predicates | think, know, want, don't want, feel, see, hear | |
Speech | say, words, true | |
Actions, Events, Movement | do, happen, move | |
Existence | be (somewhere), there is, be (someone/something), | |
Possession | public , private , (is) mine | |
Life and Death | live, die | |
Time | when/time, now, before, after, a long time, a short time, for some time, moment | |
Space | where/place, here, above, below, far, near, side, inside, touch (contact) | |
Logical Concepts | not, maybe, can, because, if | |
Intensifier, Augmentor | very, more | |
Similarity | like/as/way | |
Direction | up , down , left , right | |
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