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  • From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
  • To: "'Rolf Furuli'" <furuli AT online.no>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Use and Misuse of Waw in Verb Tenses
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:05:19 -0400

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.





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