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  • From: Peter Bekins <pbekins AT fuse.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Piel and the Binyanim (Re: Verb Stem Confusion)
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:37:34 -0500

Yitzhak,

Thanks for the plug. For what it is worth, I personally disagree with Goetze and lean towards the view that the doubling indicates plurality as is common in Semitic (and non-Semitic) languages. This was argued well by Joseph Greenberg (though I haven't put up a summary of this paper yet):

Greenberg, Joseph H. “The Semitic ‘intensive’ as verbal plurality: a study of grammaticalization. Pages 577-587 in Semitic studies in honor of Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday. Edited by Alan S Kaye. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1991.

I summarize Kouwenberg's study of the D-stem (piel) in Akkadian in which he reaches the same conclusions:

http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/kouwenberg-njc-gemination- in-the-akkadian-verb-studia-semitica-neerlandica-33-assen-van- gorcum-1997/

Peter Bekins

On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:52 AM, b-hebrew-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Peter Bekins discusses one article on the Piel here:
http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/goetze-albrecht-the-so- called-intensive-of-the-semitic-languages-jaos-vol-62-no-1- march-1942-1-8/

Also relevant is his discussion here:
http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-complicated- morphology-of-the-semitic-binyanim/

Yitzhak Sapir





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