Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 17:45, Bill Rea wrote:
> Dave wrote:-
>
> >We've been down this road before, and the upside-down methodology is
> >the one that assumes, a priori, that the form most common *within the
> >limited and specialized corpus that has come down to us,* is the most
> >fundamental one.
>
> If your assertion is correct then the question become unaswerable.
> To decide whether Hebrew is VSO or SVO requires evidence. If the
> only evidence we have is deemed an unreliable witness then we are
> stuck.

But since that's not what I said, we're unstuck, I guess.

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Dave Washburn
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