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  • From: Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>
  • To: jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Morphology, words and the waw
  • Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 20:41:03 +0200

The Masoretes, I believe, wrote a chanting guide for liturgy rather than grammar. The concept of grammar was largely unknown then. So they wrote together what is sung together. Naturally, an open-syllable particle became concatenated to the next world.

Vadim Cherny


James Christian wrote:
What did they perceive as
'words'? Why did they write wayiqtol and not wa yiqtol?




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