Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Um, this was just a term paper.
I've switched computers several times in the mean time.
I wonder if I have it somewhere.
I doubt it,a ctually.
I might be able to recreate it.
Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Washburn [mailto:dwashbur AT nyx.net]
> Sent: Tue, November 13, 2001 2:43 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: b-hebrew digest: November 12, 2001
>
>
> I'd be interested to see that.  Is it still available?
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > I took a couple of classes in my graduate student days in
> > linguistics at UM with a fellow who studied at
> > MIT with Chomsky and indeed was a Chomsky clone.
> > He was of the opinion, and taught, that every language
> > was at its base SVO. He had a slew of proofs.
> > I wrote a paper taking each one of the proofs of SVO and
> > showed that biblical Hebrew was VSO at its core.
> > (Someone else showed it for Welsh.)
> >
> > Liz
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dave Washburn [mailto:dwashbur AT nyx.net]
> > > Sent: Tue, November 13, 2001 2:21 PM
> > > To: Biblical Hebrew
> > > Subject: RE: b-hebrew digest: November 12, 2001
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hebrew word order is (usually) V-S-O. Verb, subject, object.
> > > > Greek word order is (usually) S-O-V, Subject, object, verb.
> > >
> > > Well, maybe and maybe not, particularly for Hebrew.  The main
> > > reason that it is often asserted that Hebrew order is VSO is
> > > because of the predominance of the wayyiqtol form in the Bible.
> > > This does not mean, however, that VSO was the "normal" word
> > > order in conversational classical hebrew was VSO, merely that in
> > > narrative prose that's the order we have preserved most often.  My
> > > own view is that the wayyiqtol is the result of a transformation that
> > > moves the verb to first position from a "base" SVO order.  But
> > > that's just my view.
> > >
> > > Dave Washburn
> > > http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
> > > This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what
> > > to do with it.
> > >                   -Emerson
> > >
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> Dave Washburn
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> to do with it.
>                   -Emerson
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