Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Moon-Ryul Jung" <moon AT computing.soongsil.ac.kr>]

Dear Alviero,

I thank you for your inspirational insights to BH. Especially
I appreciate your methodological starting point: Try to link
forms and their functions in the context rather than analyzing
the "semantics" of the forms, which is very hard to do even for 
native speakers of the language. This seems to be especially
appropriate when we study dead languages. 

Also let me ask some questions about your recent post. You said:

Correspondence between morphology and function is the domain of syntax.
For instance, wayyiqtol has a distinct morphology from all other
verbforms and constructions; it also has a distinctive function in the
text. Thus, it is a verbform on its own right. This means, among other
things, that it is not a waw+yiqtol, it is a wayyiqtol. The same is
true of the other distinctive verforms and constructions, i.e. qatal,
x-qatal, yiqtol, x-yiqtol, weqatal, weyiqtol, imperative and the non
verbal sentence.

I see the difference between x-qatal and weqatal, and between x-yiqtol and
weyiqtol. But not between x-qatal and qatal, and between x-yiqtol and 
yiqtol. I thought "x" refers to whatever goes bewteen we and yiqtol???
And could you please explain the difference between x-qatal and qatal
and between x-yiqtol and yiqtol?

Sincerely

Moon
Moon-Ryul Jung
Asssistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Soongsil University,
Seoul, KOrea

Sincerely