Biblical Hebrew Forum

["J. Raymond Kelley" <jraykelley AT prodigy.net>]

Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:

> Dear Dave,
>
> > I thought about responding to Harold's post, but figured you could do 
> > a better
> > job :-)  I think the reason he doesn't understand the subconscious 
> > part is
> > because you and he are talking about two very different levels of 
> > language
> > usage, i.e. you are talking about the very deep, fundamental level 
> > that says
> > "I form a question by reversing the subject and verb, except when X, 
> > Y or Z
> > is needed" and that sort of thing, whereas he's talking about a very 
> > high
> > level of word choice, connotation, emphasis, and other matters of a more
> > pragmatic nature.  It's always difficult to have a discussion when we're
> > talking right past each other...
>
>
> HH: I had in mind 


Bingo!

Ray Kelley


> the specific examples of extraposition and leftward or rightward 
> shifting that Robert gave in his paper under discussion. So we should 
> have been on exactly the same page.
>
>                 Yours,
>                 Harold Holmyard
>
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