Reinier de Blois following J.P.Louw** draws a distinction between lexicalExcellent question, Clay. I am involved in a project to develop just such a dictionary, restricted to "Key Terms" (this is not R de Blois' SDBH project). I consider this to be a helpful distinction, but it is also a confusing one. In fact the project leadership has just agreed to a change in the terminology: we will continue to refer to "lexical meaning", but no longer to "contextual meaning", rather to "contextual use".
and contextual semantic domains:
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In an article written in 1991, Louw makes a distinction between lexical and
contextual meaning. According to him, the former deals with those aspects of
meaning that a word ³contributes in and of itself,² whereas the latter deals
with the information provided by the utterance in which that word occurs
³involving the circumstances of and the objects referred to in a specific
context in terms of its usage in such a context along with other words or
phrases contributing to the context.²
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Does anyone who has taken a serious look at this issue have any reservations
about developing a Hebrew dictionary which is structured around this
distinction?
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