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  • From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: "Bryan Rocine" <brocine AT earthlink.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: re:Ariyel's Flower,2
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 03:26:06 -0500


rocine: >Doesn't the natural impossiblility of a flower speaking
>warrant a focus?
Yes, but on the speaking.

>Our world-knowledge tells us there is only
>one "real" candidate for a speaker in the story, Ariyel. So
>while the fronted element does not distinguish *between*
>speakers, its clarifies the surprising truth: there *are*
>two speakers. And if you buy this, might you buy the SV
>order after all?

Like I said, it is the situation of a speaking flower, not the flower
itself.
vehinne dibbera ha-peraH
is a winner.

Randall Buth



  • Re: re:Ariyel's Flower,2, yochanan bitan, 01/27/2000

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