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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Zech 6:8
  • Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:36:50 +1000


@ Herman
You wrote:
Herman:dear kelton, Steve, others interested,
In Biblical Hebrew, there is no visible nominative, genitive, dative,
accusative, ablative or any other kind of case ending for which we usLatin words, because they are Latin/Greek, i.e. Indo-European terms.
Let alone a "datival accusative". Imagine we would suppose there were
indeed case endings someday in Hebrew (which is likely), like in Arabic there still are in poetry for example, then we could easily prove that in the biblical phase of Hebrew they died out.
Response: Well actually, the accusative is visible in Hebrew. )T is definitely the sign for the direct object. A dative accusative is just a label for when we find a pronominal object where we would expect a prepositional object.

This is, to say the least, quite a contraversial subject; see, eg:

Garr, W. Randall. "Affectedness, Aspect, and Biblical 'et." Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 4 (1991): 119-134.

Khan, G. A. "Object Markers and Agreement Pronouns in Semitic Languages." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 47 (1984): 468-500.

Kroeze, Jan H. "Alternatives for the Accusative in Biblical Hebrew." Pages 11-25 in Studien zur hebräischen Grammatik. Edited by Andreas Wagner. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 156. Freiburg/Göttingen: Universitätsverlag/Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1997.

Kroeze, Jan H. "Alternatives for the Nominative in Biblical Hebrew." Journal of Semitic Studies 46 (2001): 33-50.

Regards,
David Kummerow.






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