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["Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear Bryan,

What about Deuteronomy 32?  Are there four sentence initial YI QTOLs or 
none?

Best regards

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Tenses and aspects; was: footnotes


> 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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