Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Naama Zahavi-Ely <nxzaha AT wm.edu>]

With all due respect to Chomsky, may I suggest that he was writing at a time 
that (modern) Hebrew was spoken primarily by people who studied it as a 
second language?  This is no longer the case.  I am a third-generation native 
Hebrew speaker, and I can tell you that my sense of grammar and language is 
quite different from the Indo-European one.  

Obviously I am not claiming that modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew are the 
same.  Neither are modern and Shakespearian English -- or, for that matter, 
everyday spoken and formal written English of our own time.

Best wishes

Naama Zahavi-Ely