Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

dear Ken,

please do not include me with the others: i have consistently maintained 
that B-Hebrew is a *tense* language, as indeed are *all* languages (i'm 
giving a paper this july against the tenseless approach to Semitic and 
Asian languages, including Chinese and Japanese). my 1995 thesis outlined 
the solution. i have since made good on all IOUs in that work (i was 
hoping to give a paper at the Florida semitics conference outlining the 
syntax and semantics of "modal coordination"--my solution to the so-called 
consecutive forms).

so for me, i've already solved your problem in principle. ;-)

however, you could still have a topic here, along these lines: say you 
adopt my framework: there still is lot of song and dance to get to 
medieval hebrew.  moreover, it might be interesting to document a change 
in aspectual default that must have taken place, maybe under the influence 
of aramaic, which seems to have made the transition sooner. the focus 
would be the bleaching of the semantics of the participle.

who would be the advisor?

shalom,
V
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dear Ken,

i won't be giving my personal info to Yahoo any time soon. :-(

can you make the info avaiable in some other way? does not McMaster give 
you space on the server for a website?

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Thanks to both Trevor and Peter for their useful 
comments on the significance of m`wz and m`zym.

I'm still at a loss to understand why the LXX and 
the Vulgate after it left the Hebrew term as is and 
didn't translate it, as though taking it for a name. 
And I guess I'll stay at a loss on the matter.


Cheers,


Ian