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  • From: Randall Buth <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: "Charles David Isbell" <cisbell AT home.com>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Hebrew philology (somewhat off topic)
  • Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:14:14 -0400


shalom
the following is not an easy call

> Any idea whether there's a distinction in Hebrew that would parallel the
>philologist/linguist distinction in English?
>
>Charles answers: Not in my personal dialect of spoken Hebrew. But again,
>others on the list may have different ranges of usage than I. I have
always
>heard and used the same word. But I have actually heard philologya for
>philology, comparable to philosophya for philosophy.
>Anyone else?
>Charles

Yes, philologia is more common for philology
and
balshanut for linguistics.
However, linguistics, theoretical,
is not often distinguished by Hebrew speakers
from linguistics, traditional and etymological,

But the same is probably true in English, philologia and linguistics,
so the problem is the background knowledge of the speakers
concerning theorectical linguistics.

bivraxot
Randall Buth





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