Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Hi David,

so you don't have any major disagreements with the method used by Rolf  
to determine his statistics or the values of the statistics he gathered?

James Christian

Quoting David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>:

> > Hi David,
> >
> > it would seem that you have completely misunderstood my request. I
> > didn't ask you if you agree with Rolf's definition of perfect and
> > imperfect aspect. Rolf has provided statistics of the verb forms with
> > respect to temporal reference.
> >
> > I was interested in you performing an analysis using the tools Rolf has
> > used to see if you come up with statistics that vary to any significant
> > degree. I consider 1 verb form to be an excessively small corpus and you
> > failed to show what linguistic tools you used to analyse the verb form.
> >
> > James Christian
>
> Hi James,
>
> I personally see little point in doing this on this list where sincere
> linguistic efforts are mocked and those with standard positions are
> repeatedly mocked and asked to defend their position over and over.
>
> Until there is agreement as to what constitutes semantics, I see little
> point in progressing. If you want to read others in addition to Rolf
> using similar principals, see the monographs of Rogland, Goldfajn, Hatav
> and the dissertation of John Cook.
>
> Regards,
> David Kummerow.
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