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  • From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: Hebrew "Nominative"
  • Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:44:50 -0700

On 9/28/04 10:36 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:

> Well, (&W )DWM and YHWH H)LHYM would also be grammatical sentences, so
> the added HW) is syntactically unnecessary here, just like the added HW)
> or other pronoun in a sentence with a finite verb but no explicit
> subject. The syntactic analogy of course does not necessarily imply
> similar semantics.

Right. One question,

a. Mistah Kurtz--he dead
b. Mistah Kurtz [is] dead.

Assume these represent the BH clauses, are they equivalent?
If not, what type of function does "he" perform? Pragmatic? Semantic?

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew







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