Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Hey Peter:

Here I think you overstate your case. And 
don't lump me together with Kevin as here I 
am arguing the same side as you.

While I'm consistent in claiming that each 
word within its linguistic semantic domain 
has one meaning, that may need two or more 
words to be translated in that the target 
language has no term with exactly the same 
semantic domain, this does not mean that 
complex lexemes (where two or more lexemes 
combine to create a third meaning) or 
idiomatic phrases don't exist. In fact, I 
believe that recognizing that each lexeme 
has basically one meaning makes it easier to 
recognize complex lexemes and idioms, as 
well as metaphorical statements.

Karl W. Randolph.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
> 
> ... You are falling here into the same fallacy as
> Karl, that words and phrases have only one meaning.
> 
>... 
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/

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