Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear Clay,

Your question is fine because it illuminates the issue.  I do not say 
that durativity per se is a semantic property; what I said was that when 
a verb is marked for durativity (sing, run, work etc), the verb can 
never cease to be durative.  Thus, durativity represent the semantic 
meaning of that verb.

Please note that states are durative, but they are not dynamic.  When a 
stem changes the property of a verb, this property is not semantic.

Best regards

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo

C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:

> On 9/17/04 10:45 PM, "Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > In Hebrew we have the verb $YR ("to sing"), which signals an action
> > which is durative and dynamic (dynamic=change).  Regardless of whether
> > this root is used as an infinitive, a participle, a WAYYIQTOL, or as a
> > YIQTOL these two properties are always the same. We can say that this
> > root is marked for durativity and dynamicity, and these properties can
> > never be taken away from this root.  This is semantic (uncancellable)
> > meaning ...
> >    
>
> Rolf,
>
> Could you try proving this with the verb (MD ("to stand")? The qal tends to
> be durative but the hifil does not. So the root itself does not have an
> invariant value for +/- durative. Do you treat the qal and hifil as
> different roots?
>
>
> greetings,
> Clay Bartholomew 
>
>
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