Biblical Hebrew Forum

[decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)]

cher matthieu,

re FG: the declarative and interrogative orders: these are arbitrarily 
stipulated? and unrelated?

in other words: any order could be declarative, and any order could be 
interrogative, and the orders would not be related in any way?

on my approach, the declarative follows from syntactic structure. the 
interrogative is systematically derived in one way and not another.  it 
seems to me that languages have a limited range of deviations for marked 
clause types, and it would be a failure to capture this generalization 
that i'm worried about.....

V -- 
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