Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>]

a bee in my bonnet:

exodus 1:12, W:KA):A$ER Y:(AN.W. )OTOW

why 'oto? why not ye`annuhu with suffixed object? surely this is not
free variation? but if not, **what** is the difference? it's not
syntactic or semantic as such: maybe discourse related? tracking
participants differently?

what say? 
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Dr Vincent DeCaen     <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor
University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1

Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative, www.chass.utoronto.ca/~decaen/hsei/
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