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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The perspective of this native speaker of Modern Hebrew of Biblical Hebrew tenses
  • Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:12:23 +0000

On 29/11/2004 09:46, Rolf Furuli wrote:

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It would also be interesting to see how well the apocopation of WEYIQTOLs correlates with a jussive (modal) sense. There is quite a strong correlation, although far from a perfect one, with all YIQTOLs, and I would expect WEYIQTOLs to match.



Of the 155 apocopated WEYIQTOLs I analyze 42 (27.1 %) as indicative, and 113 (72.9) as modal. As for the 217 apocopated YIQTOLs I analyze 12 (5.5 %) as indicative.

Thank you, Rolf. But there seems to be something wrong with your totals. I found 841 apocopated YIQTOLs and WEYIQTOLs together, but your total is only 372. I also found 499 which are marked as "jussive form" (although I am not sure why some are "apocopated" but not "jussive form"), and 495 which are marked as both "apocopated" and "jussive form". So where is the big difference?

I tried to reproduce the rest of your data but found 398 YIQTOLs and WEYIQTOLs which are apocopated but not marked in the Westminster morphological database as having "jussive meaning". (I tend to feel that this attempt to mark "jussive meaning" goes beyond what a morphological database should do, but in this case it is helpful.) There are 102, all apocopated, which are "jussive form" but not "jussive meaning". This is a much larger number than your 54 indicative YIQTOLs and WEYIQTOLs. So it seems that there are a large number of forms which you consider "modal" but Westminster does not consider "jussive". What can these be? Do you count simple futures as "modal"?

I started to look at the 295 forms which are marked as apocopated but not considered jussive in form or meaning. A large number of these seem to be forms of BW) "go", in the qal, which are marked as apocopated but do not in fact seem to be apocopated in any way. (Some are missing the middle radical vav, but many are not e.g. Gen 32:9.) So it looks like there is some misleading marking in the Westminster database. Possibly I am not using the latest version, although it comes with some very new software.

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