Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Primes, Universals, and Syntax with Data from the Semantic Field Grace in the Old Testaments of the King James Bible and Martin Luther’s German Bible

Authors

Mary K. Bolin, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

ORCID IDs

Mary Bolin

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

Spring 4-11-2018

Abstract

This paper examines the use of "Semantic Primes" or "Natural Semantic Metalanguage" (NSM) as developed by Wierzbicka and Goddard, comparing it with other techniques of semantic analysis and applying to the semantic field "Grace" as defined by Bolin (1999) in the King James English Bible and Luther's German Bible.