Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

what i'm getting at, peter, is that you should be able to show
continuity of order effects with yiqtol from modern straight through to
mishnaic and qumran; also in aramaic dialects, ugaritic.  so if i
could bring all that evidence together with a generative analysis for
hebrew that also has at its heart word order and the semantics of
yiqtol.... well, of course i wouldn't prove anything, but as data to
adduce in favour of the analysis, that would weigh pretty heavy.

right? 
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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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