Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 29/04/2005 17:25, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> ...
>
> Note "everything" and "potentially." Vowels are central to Semitic
> morphology. They "are" the morphology. Without vowels, script is not just
> potentially sometimes ambiguous, but morphologically inadequate.
>
>  
You seem to be contradicting yourself. First you claim that Semitic is 
vowelless, now that vowels are central to its morphology. Do you mean 
that there has been a change since Bible times, that Hebrew etc used to 
be vowelless and then acquired vowels? If so, do you mean that biblical 
Hebrew originally lacked morphology? This is patently ridiculous.


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