Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

Rolf Furuli wrote:

> In Hosea we have a setting, BMQM, but there is no grammatical or syntactic 
> reason to view this setting as a grammatical element in c), thus 
> transferring it to c). The point is not that it is impossible for a 
> grammatical element of a clause in Hebrew to graphically occur outside the 
> clause. But such occurrences are rare, and they should be perefectly clear 
> before they can be accepted. My main objection to your analysis of a 
> sentence initial adverebial in c) is that it is driven by theory and not by 
> necessity.

The analysis is not driven by anything.  I am just reading what is 
there.  bimqom is not floating unattached.  I am simply attaching an 
adverbial with its verb.

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