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  • From: Peter_Kirk AT sil.org
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re[2]: b-hebrew digest: December 03, 1998
  • Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:56 -0500 (EST)


Matthew Anstey wrote:

The method (assuming form determines function) seems to me to be
something like this:
1) Define Tense componentially
2) Define Aspect componentially
3) Delineate a Textual Corpus for study
4) Delineate particular Verb forms for study 5) Analyse 4) in 3) by
criteria of 2) and 1);
6) Use results of 5) to categorise 4) into components from 1) and 2).
7) Explain all the exceptions from 6) with ideas such as "fossiled
forms," "psychological perspective," etc.

Maybe an accurate description of what many people do: first define
your straitjackets, and then try to force your living (or formerly
living) language into them. Let's stop trying to define b-hebrew as a
tense-based language or an aspect-based language and let it be
b-hebrew!

Peter Kirk




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