Ways of use vary between languages in complicated ways. Meaning cannot be explained completely, so any language cannot be explicated completely. Weigand reminds us again that we need corpora both to determine and to confirm the semantic conventions revealed in the contrastive analysis. Dem'jankov's papers are in German. All give similar parallel lists to Weigand's, divided under the same headings and comparing two languages at a time.
Pragmatic rules determine the use of words.
When considering Dutch and German, it is important to remember the general principle of 'avoid conflict' at play in Dutch. Westheide includes information on his learner's German dictionary for Dutch students, which uses the contrastive method described above. The lexical field approach covers only the 'regular uses' of the verbs, though they are used in ways that deviate from their core meanings. The same general approach as above is advocated again here. He defines motivation, the relation between root words and derived forms, and describes synchronic word families based on 'close' or 'loose' motivation.