Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dale M. Wheeler" <dalemw AT teleport.com>]

At 08:44 AM 2/11/00 -0600, you wrote:




> Ray Clendenen@BSSBNOTES
> 02/11/2000 08:44 AM
>
> I wish I had time to look at this in detail. It's interesting. I notice
> that the idea of purpose does not fit at least in Ex 32:14 and Dt 19:8. Van
> der Merwe does not mention this as a use of the inf. const. My next step
> would be to look at Cynthia Miller's book on reported speech, which
> unfortunately I don't have with me right now. Sorry. It looks to me like a
> new category may be needed.
> Ray


Ray:

I was thinking that what we may have here is the common phenomenon of 
syntax books copying from the previous generation, for generation after 
generation, from language to language, and for some reason no one has yet 
to try to do a Syntax from the ground up based on linguistics and personal 
exposure to the text.  I've found a couple of these types of things as I've 
been revising my Hebrew syntax notes that come with the Gramcord 
software.  For example, W/O  and GKC completely missed the use of the Inf 
Cstr as a Finite, which while not terribly common, does occur.  So I 
started searching and found a tiny remark in the terribly disorganized 
Davidson's Syntax sec.96 Rem. 3, eg., Jer 9:5; Job 9:27.

Is Miller's book about Hebrew or general linguistics ?



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