[b-hebrew] shewa in imperative
Stoney Breyer
stoneyb at touchwood.net
Wed Jun 22 14:08:46 EDT 2005
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From: b-hebrew-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Vadim Cherny
cross-linguistically in imperatives: reduction of first vowel, emphatic
elongation of the second.
let's go - l'ts goo!
record - r'cOrd!
Perhaps in other languages; but in English "l'ts go" will not be
encountered, and the reduction in "r'cord" distinguishes verb from noun,
not imperative from other verbal forms.
Stoney Breyer
Writer/Touchwood
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