Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>]

Dear Rolf,

Do any linguists accept your model of the Hebrew verb?

Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
Dead Sea Scrolls scholars' list owner,
http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
 
> I have lectured about my verbal model for groups of scholars, 
> and I do 
> not expect that the model immediately should be accepted, or 
> necessarily 
> accepted at all.  But frankly speaking, I am surprised to find how 
> difficult it is to be able to have a meaningful discussion regarding 
> the  linguistic principles at stake.  It seems to me that very few 
> professors of Semitic languages are able to fathom that there is a 
> distinction between semantic ( uncancellable) factors inside 
> a language 
> and pragmatic factors.  This seems to be something they never have 
> thought of.  So it is high time that linguistics are introduced into 
> Semitic studies.