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Re: [b-hebrew] Could preposition be a morphological part?

From: dwashbur AT nyx.net
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Could preposition be a morphological part?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:52:56 -0800

On 26 Feb 2010 at 0:27, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> In weqatal, waw must be a preposition. The prefix would have turned
> the word into wiqtal, like niphal.
> But prepositions don't change the verb's morphology and cannot turn
> it
> from past tense into imperfect.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Vadim Cherny

Do you perhaps mean a conjunction?

Dave Washburn

http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur

[b-hebrew] Could preposition be a morphological part?, Vadim Cherny, 02/25/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] Could preposition be a morphological part?, dwashbur, 02/25/2010