Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

hi henry,

thanks for the url to your thesis: i remember trying to get it once, and 
just about blew to pieces the laser printer. ;-)

i do not want to admit all the diachronic business: i want to derive 
prosodic, synchronic explanations.  and i want a unified treatment: i 
believe it's doable, and that in any case we'll learn a lot trying.

i'm especially keen to see your appendix on optimality theory. (i always 
enjoyed the idea of applying "OT" to the "OT"!)  btw, benua and mccarthy, 
i believe, are right out to lunch on BH:  be nice to shake up that 
establishment too.... ;-)

cheers
V -- 
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