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Re: Gen 26:13

From: "Bryan Rocine" <brocine AT earthlink.net>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Gen 26:13
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 06:43:25 -0400

Dear Galia,
You wrote:

>Except for Isa 20:2, all the other examples have, indeed,
> the construction <HALOX W+adj>.
> This is realy wierd, and contradicts the Chomskian rule
that you can
> coordinate only categories of the same kind.
>

Well, maybe an infinitive absolute and an adjective are
equivalent categories in the sense that they can both be
used as nominals.

Shal;om,
Bryan

Re: Gen 26:13, Bryan Rocine, 10/02/1999