Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Paul Zellmer <zellmer AT cag.pworld.net.ph>]

Rolf Furuli wrote:

> The fact that 12 per cent of the weqatals with penultimate stress do not
> have a future meaning and that 36 per cent of the weqatals with penultimate
> stress have future meaning accords with Dave's suggestions above.

Hold it, Rolf.  Are you trying to say that stress is a morphological or 
syntactical
feature in Hebrew?  Isn't stress determined by the lexical form of the word 
in this
language?  Are there any pairs where the same word is used in one place in a 
future
sense (in your determination) and in a past sense (again, in your 
determination), and
stress is different?

Paul

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