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  • From: decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: puzzle of first person sequentials
  • Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:19:35 -0500 (EST)


dear b-haverim,

looking at the distribution of variants of the first person sequentials.
you get two types of variation.

(type I) W)HYH --> W)HY merger of final-weak paradigm
(type II) W)KTB --> W)KTBH merger of modal paradigm

curious if you look at the distributional pattern. looks confusing;
however, you can make sense of the distribution if you notice the
ambiguity of the -H in type I. what do you think of the following
scenario?

Early Persian Qumran
W)HYH --> W)HY --> W)HYH
--> W)KTBH

my idea is that when the the final -H "comes back" as it were in the
final-weak paradigm, it is actually part of a different, larger
phenomenon. of course, this would mean that the scribes misunderstood some
forms.

i'm intensely interested in the transitional periods where you seem to
obtain free variation: there ought to be principles governing choices, a
la Revell.

sholom
V
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  • puzzle of first person sequentials, Vincent DeCaen, 03/28/2000

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