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  • From: Garth Grenache <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Blau's explanation for how ultimate stress became in Hebrew
  • Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 01:45:58 +1000










Peace, Karl:

I am not familiar with Mishnaic Hebrew.

It is from ProtoSemitic/ProtoHebrew to the Tiberian vocalised Biblical Hebrew
that Blau is showing development.

It is said that Stage iii probably reflects Hebrew from about 1000 B.C.E.

I reckon Stage iv is probably a development in the Tiberian tradition of
pronunciation, medieval.

Garth Grenache,
Australia.

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 08:30:14 -0700
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Blau's explanation for how ultimate stress became in
Hebrew
From: kwrandolph AT gmail.com
To: garthgrenache AT hotmail.com
CC: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Garth:
This sounds like the pattern of linguistic change from Biblical Hebrew to
Mishnaic Hebrew, or pretty close to that pattern. Doesn’t it sound like that
to you, too?
Karl W. Randolph.


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Garth Grenache <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>
wrote:



Blau suggests four stages of stress from ProtoHebrew/ProtoSemitic to Hebrew:



i. Perhaps second-last syllable (penult) is stressed in words containing only
short vowels; otherwise the last long vowel was stressed, which was often
also the penult.

ii. General penultimate stress.

iii. Loss of final short vowels in most verbs and nouns leaves the stress on
last syllable (ultima).

iv. Some words with penultimate stress which retained long final vowels, had
their stress also moved to the ultima, e.g. sha:-mA-ra:->sha:-ma-rA: ->
sha:me-rA: (pausal retains original vowel and its penultimate accent
shamA:ra: because it was lengthened in pause)






Garth Grenache, Australia





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