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  • From: "Trevor Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
  • To: "'b-hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Re: deriving stems (was:
  • Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:18:27 -0500

Peter wrote:

> There are major differences between different native speakers
> of English
> about how productive such processes can be. For example, Americans
> commonly verb nouns, but we British don't, for us "verb" is
> not a verb.
>
> There may be similar differences between Hebrew speakers about the
> productivity of binyanim.

That's fine. But even in American English, I think there's an obvious
difference between verbing a noun and selecting the past tense form of a
verb. That's the kind of difference I'm talking about for Hebrew.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics





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