Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Henry Churchyard <churchh AT usa.net>]

My posting of yesterday didn't show up in last night's digest, but
when I tried to re-send it, the Lyris robot said that it was a
duplicate, and it's on the web-site.  Hmm...  Here it is, for whatever
it's worth...

> My point in my last posting was that qosht., nerd, and 'ard show
> exactly the same behavior as h.es., h.oq, and `am -- qosht. has
> h.olem and so does h.oq; nerd has s.ere, and so does h.es.; 'ard has
> pathah. in "context" and qames. when pausal, and so does `am.  So a
> compensatory lengthening explanation wouldn't explain the parallel
> vowels in a parallel way.

> Syllables which would have main-stress, except that the word in
> which they occur has been joined with maqqeph to the following word,
> differ both from surface main-stressed syllables, and from syllables
> which never would receive main stress.  In a true non-word-final
> unstressed syllable, an underlying non-low front short vowel would
> generally become [i] in a closed syllable, while the same doesn't
> happen in syllables which would receive main stress except for
> maqqeph.

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Henry Churchyard   churchh AT usa.net   http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/



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