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Re: [b-hebrew] Deut. 4:10 )$r

From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Deut. 4:10 )$r
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:54:03 -0700

Harold,

On 10/8/04 7:05 AM, "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com> wrote:

> The leftward versus rightward
> concept seems to build on the notion of a set grammatical sentence
> skeleton, but I am not sure that there is such a thing.

Yes, this seems to be an enduring feature of the Chomsky school. I had no
problem with it until I started working in **natural** languages. The model
was useful with artifical (machine) languages but for ancient Greek syntax
and Biblical Hebrew is raises more problems than it solves.

thank you for your comments,
Clay Bartholomew

[b-hebrew] Deut. 4:10 )$r, C. Stirling Bartholomew, 10/08/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Deut. 4:10 )$r, Harold R. Holmyard III, 10/08/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Deut. 4:10 )$r, C. Stirling Bartholomew, 10/08/2004