Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi,

Quoting belaga AT math.u-strasbg.fr:

> You get it ...
>
> Hebrew (and partially, Semitic languages) possess another
> complementary, closely related with the first one even if a priory
> fully independent "unique, fundamental, and 'primeval' feature not
> shared by other languages" and sure not available in artificial
> Assembler languages: typically, a change in a consonant transforms the
> root of the verb to a semantically related verb.

I don't think we would be going going far from acceptable discussion.

You raise an extremely interesting claim, good sir. T'would be  
inspiring to explore to its very depths I do venture. However, I do  
fancy, that it may come to pass that any one of our fine brethren may  
so be able to conjure many a counter example to such an elaborate and  
grandious yet, dare I say, ambitious hypothesis. ;0)

BTW dude, where did you learn English? I'm impressed.

James Christian


> This is why the redundacy you mentiont is not so important. In other
> words, it looks like the set of verbs is a sort of a "living organism"
> -- but it will carry us too far from our moderators ... Anyway, modern
> Hebrew does not respect this feature of its honorable ancestor.
>
> Dr. Edward G. Belaga
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> Quoting James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > that's an interesting thought. If it was bi-consonantal with 22
> > different characters we would be limited to 22*22=484 basic roots. But
> > with triconsonant we have a maximum possible range of 10,648. There is
> > a massive amount of redundancy in this figure, though, because usually
> > about 2,000 core roots account for about 70% of any particular language.
> >
> > James Christian
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