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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Explain it please
  • Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:21:19 -0500

David,

I am really puzzled by your statement:

your contention -- again without adduced evidence -- that BH has only a
single vowel is linguistically impossible

Where is the single vowel and why is it linguistically impossible?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:45 AM, David Kummerow wrote:


Hi Isaac,

You wrote this:

2. Even though -AH is in my opinion but a contracted HI) it may refer
to various agents and objects in various relationship modes. We have
YALDAH, 'girl, child-she', YALDAH, 'she gave birth, produced-a-chid-
she' and YALDAH, 'her boy, boy-she'.

and this:

4. In the adjective TOBAH, 'good', -AH refers to the feminine bearer
of the attribute, but in the noun TOBAH, 'favor, goodness', -AH
refers to the thing itself. Incidentally it is "female", as is
autostradah.
5 The counterpart to MAR, 'mister' is MAR-AT, where -AT is surely the
personal pronoun AT, 'you'. MARAH is 'bitter'. Such is also the
relationship between GEBER and GBER-ET.

What is the evidence for these assertions?

What is your evidence for equating what has traditionally been analysed
as gender marking to actually be speech-participant marking? I've
already demonstrated that your methodology is without linguistic
support, viz. 1) that you eschew any essential phonemic analysis which
allows you to basically propose anything you want to as it is then up to
the imagination and so is without any constraints; and 2) your
contention -- again without adduced evidence -- that BH has only a
single vowel is linguistically impossible. These two issues lead
ultimately to a fanciful analysis which no one is taking seriously.

You would do well to read monographs which relate to your above
assertions such as the following:

Corbett, Greville G. 1991. Gender. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Corbett, Greville G. 2000. Number. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Siewierska, Anna. 2004. Person. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Regards,
David Kummerow.






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