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Re: lam yaktub-rolf

From: yochanan bitan-buth <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>
Subject: Re: lam yaktub-rolf
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:40:53 -0400

rolf katav-> In my
>view, the use of the prefix-form with LAM in Modern and Classical Arabic
is
>a remnant of the time-indifferent meaning of the prefix-form.

beep. lam yaktub cannot be used for the future. It is not time indifferent
but takes the same semantic parameters as "kataba".

washukran,

Randall Buth

Re: lam yaktub-rolf, yochanan bitan-buth, 06/30/2000