Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Dear Isaac,

I am not agreeing with you per se. And it it not just "now" that I am in 
agreement. I have been persuaded of the existence of a short prefix verb 
for a while now (but maybe not as long as you as I am young in years). I 
find your theories to be unconstrained and subjective. I am more 
convinced by the language data itself and others who have helpfully 
explained that data. I disagree on the dagesh with you and that the verb 
form "contains two personal pronouns". Rather, they are verbal 
paradigmatic inflections, PERHAPS diachronically related to personal 
pronouns (this is easier to demonstrate for the suffix verb). However, 
they are no longer personal pronouns. They could even be thought of as a 
circumflex. As you know, BH is a non-catenative language.

Regards,
David Kummerow.


> > David,
> >
> > I am glad to see that you now agree with me that wayyiqtol contains a 
> > "short prefix verb". I will wait for you to agree with me that it also 
> > contains two personal pronouns.
> >
> > Isaac Fried, Boston University