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Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's

From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
Cc: b-hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:57:57 -0400

Yitzhak,

As you surely know there is a general assertative/irritative/ emphaticness marker in present day colloquial Hebrew. It is the flowery and highly useful "nu yalla", to be issued in one breath, and be possibly preceded by an O.K.. Today the King would say O.K., nu yalla, tazuzu kbar.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 14, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

While Testen does
not seem to provide any particular examples of *l with an imperative, he does
make the case it was a general asseverative/emphaticness marker in
early Semitic languages.

Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Isaac Fried, 06/13/2008
- Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Vadim Cherny, 06/14/2008
- Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Yitzhak Sapir, 06/14/2008
  - Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Isaac Fried, 06/14/2008
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Yaakov Stein, 06/14/2008
  - Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Isaac Fried, 06/15/2008
    - Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Yaakov Stein, 06/15/2008
  - Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Yitzhak Sapir, 06/15/2008
    - Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Yaakov Stein, 06/15/2008
      - Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Yitzhak Sapir, 06/15/2008
    - Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Isaac Fried, 06/15/2008
      - Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Vadim Cherny, 06/16/2008
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Yakov Hadash, 06/16/2008
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's, Yitzhak Sapir, 06/17/2008