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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: Hebrew "Nominative"
  • Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:36:14 +0100

On 28/09/2004 17:41, C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:

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What, therefore, does one say about "pleonastic" pronouns are they
pleonastic?

Gen. 36:8 ... (&w hw) )dwM

1Kings 18:39 ... yhwh hw) h)lhyM

If we reduce these to English SVO propositions then the pronoun looks like
it serves no syntactical purpose. I think calling these "pleonastic"
probably reveals a weakness in the analysis/methodology.


Well, (&W )DWM and YHWH H)LHYM would also be grammatical sentences, so the added HW) is syntactically unnecessary here, just like the added HW) or other pronoun in a sentence with a finite verb but no explicit subject. The syntactic analogy of course does not necessarily imply similar semantics.

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