Semantic primes in Mohammed Khudayer's the swing : a syntactico-semantic study

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This paper endeavors to investigate/explicate the Semantic Primes of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach in The Swing, a short story written by the Iraqi writer Mohammed Khudayer (1967) following Goddard and Wierzbicka (2014) approach of analysis (Semantic Primes of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach (NSM).

Semantic primes are the minimum sets of lexical words/expressions shared by world languages which are the indefinable and indecomposable markers of universality between world languages.

This research has concluded that Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth, MSA) is a language that encodes these semantic primes via certain mechanisms.