Mulyadi & Siregar, Rumnasari K. (2006). Aplikasi teori Metabahasa Makna Alami dalam kajian makna [Application of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to the study of meaning]. Logat: Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa dan Sastra 2(2), 69-75. PDF (open access)
This article describes the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach and provides illustrations involving Indonesian verbs, nouns, and adjectives. The aim is to explain some of the basic concepts of the theory and some of its research procedures. Semantic properties of a word are explored by means of syntactic and semantic evidence. The illustrations show that the approach can unpack the complex meanings of words that are related semantically to understand their similarities and differences.
