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[b-hebrew] Question about Suffixes on Infinitive Construct

From: "Jerry Shepherd" <jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca>
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Subject: [b-hebrew] Question about Suffixes on Infinitive Construct
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:18:32 -0600

List Members,

I have told a Hebrew exegesis class I am teaching that suffixes on the
infinitive construct are much more likely to be subject rather than
object, and that this is especially the case with a beth or kaph
prefixed preposition, but that with a lamed preposition the suffix is
more likely to be an object. I've looked in several grammars (Kittel,
Lambdin, Weingreen, Greenberg, Jouon-Muraoka, Arnold and Choi, van der
Merwe, etc.), and I think I have fairly represented the case, but I'm
wondering if anyone on the list might have a better feel than I do with
regard to some kind of percentage with regard to subject vs. object.
Thanks.

Jerry Shepherd

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[b-hebrew] Question about Suffixes on Infinitive Construct, Jerry Shepherd, 10/05/2005