Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>]

Dear David,
> You miss my point. Wherever you look in language, semantically there is 
> a paucity of forms. Some language's "grammars" show paucity in different 
> areas, but there is nevertheless, as I stated above, generalisation, 
> economy, polysemy, and conceptual grouping occurring commonly in 
> language. Just how this is played out varies from one language to the 
> next. It is the tension between, to use Haiman's (2004) terminology, of 
> "efficiency and complexity in grammars".
>   

HH: Thank you for the careful answers and for the bibliography.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard