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  • From: "B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses and aspects; was: footnotes
  • Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:18:32 -0400

Hi James,

bimqom is a preposition and its object, right? What corresponds to a prepositional phrase in English? And it is functioning adverbially, right? Specifically, it is answering the question, "where?"

What verb is it modifying? The answer tells us very definitely with which clause bimqom belongs. There is nothing the slightest bit bendy about it. There is nothing the slightest bit about it that has to do with where it appears on the page or what cantillation marks are employed in the verse.

Here the passage is diagrammed (ye'amer(a) is the first ye'amer in the verse, and ye'amer(b) is the second):

ye'amer(b)--beney 'el xay
/ \
bimqom lahem
|
|'asher
|
ye'amer(a)--lo' `amiy 'atem
\
lahem

Shalom,
Bryan

Read, James C wrote:
Yep!
Rolf's right here.
The argument becomes very circular when we have such a bendy definition of clause initial.


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