James McElvenny is a linguist and historian of science whose research focuses on the history of modern linguistics. He is currently a researcher in the Special Collaborative Research Centre “Media of Co-operation” at the University of Siegen.
Diagram of the ‘radial definition routes’ of Panoptic Conjugation (Ogden 1930: 12) A fascinating turn in recent Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) scholarship is the development of 'Minimal English', an international…