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  • From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: "Matthew Anstey" <manstey AT portal.ca>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: re:Pronominal Objects
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:05:45 -0400


>In Gen 17.16 we find both these expressions:
>
> uberaktiy 'otah "I will bless her"
> uberaktiyha "I will bless her"
>
>There are many other examples like this where the pronominal object is
>expressed with the same verb in these two different ways. My questions
are,
>Does anyone have any theories as to the difference between these two
>structures? and, Does anyone know of any articles or books that discuss
this
>phenomenon?

three basic approaches are used:
1. the chronological/dialectical, e.g. polzin on late biblical hebrew who
notes statistical deviance in this feature between 1st/2nd temple hebrew.
2. another approach is 'textlinguistic', the cliticized object is more
fully processed, more assumed, or less-actively thematic. see longacre
"joseph" for some discussion on these lines.
3. poetic balance/weight.
i find that 1 and 3 do not provide much help in this passage. the second
approach needs more work but is in the right direction.
braxot
randall buth



  • Pronominal Objects, Matthew Anstey, 09/29/1999
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • re:Pronominal Objects, yochanan bitan, 09/29/1999

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