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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Question on vowel
  • Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:26:57 +0000

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote:

> > I've thought about it some more and it seems to me that the form with
> qamats
> > is to be explained as an archaic form displaced by analogy. While
> analogy is
> > a normal linguistic process which displaces older forms, the older forms
> > sometime survive in restricted contexts. One would still have to figure
> out
> > the exact analogy, however.
> >
> > Yitzhak Sapir
>
> Couldn't this be a "Pausa"?

What is a "pausa"? Do you mean special variations on words when they appear
in
a pausal context as far as the cantillation marks is concerned. If
so, please read
my earlier message on the subject.

Yitzhak Sapir




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