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Re: strings of nouns/adjectives

From: Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky <hermeneutics AT kulikovskyonline.net>
To: Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu>,b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: strings of nouns/adjectives
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 17:02:19 +0200

On 10:42 AM 5/09/2002 -0400, Yigal Levin wrote:

At 04:37 PM 9/5/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>At 10:23 AM 5/09/2002 -0400, Yigal Levin wrote:
>>At 04:13 PM 9/5/2002 +0200, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky wrote:
>> >Another syntax question.
>> >
>> >In Gen 1:20, the waters are to teem with "sherez nephesh chayyah"
>> >
>> >Now, is this two separate objects? Swarming things AND living, breathing
>> >things.
>> >
>> >Or a single object? Swarming, living breathing things.
>> >
>> >In the latter case, the noun sherez would function as an adjective.
>> >
>>
>>I would read it as a construct, with "sherez" meaning "brood" (offspring):
>>"the offspring of living things that are in the water".
>
>But wouldn't the string be terminated by a definite noun if this were so?

Yes, "Hayyah", "living thing".

In my GRAMCORD text, it is parsed as an adjective? Why do you say it is a definite noun?

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Andrew
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strings of nouns/adjectives, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky, 09/05/2002
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