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Anna Wierzbicka

This is a research agenda resembling Leibniz's original "alphabet of human thought", which Wierzbicka credits her colleague, linguist Andrzej Bogusławski, with reviving in the late 1960s.

Linguistic universal

A modern variant of this approach can be found in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Wierzbicka and associates.

Natural semantic metalanguage

The leading proponents of the theory are Anna Wierzbicka at Warsaw University and later at the Australian National University who originated the theory in the early 1970s (Wierzbicka 1972), and Cliff Goddard at Australia's Griffith University (Goddard & Wierzbicka 1994, 2002).

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