Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

On 9/28/04 10:36 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:

> 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.

Right. One question,

a.  Mistah Kurtz--he dead
b.  Mistah Kurtz [is] dead.

Assume these represent the BH clauses, are they equivalent?
If not, what type of function does "he" perform? Pragmatic? Semantic?

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew