Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Garth:

This sounds like the pattern of linguistic change from Biblical Hebrew to
Mishnaic Hebrew, or pretty close to that pattern. Doesn’t it sound like that
to you, too?

Karl W. Randolph.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Garth Grenache 
<garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Blau suggests four stages of stress from ProtoHebrew/ProtoSemitic to
> Hebrew:
>
> i. Perhaps second-last syllable (penult) is stressed in words containing
> only short vowels; otherwise the last long vowel was stressed, which was
> often also the penult.
> ii. General penultimate stress.
> iii. Loss of final short vowels in most verbs and nouns leaves the stress
> on last syllable (ultima).
> iv. Some words with penultimate stress which retained long final vowels,
> had their stress also moved to the ultima, e.g. sha:-mA-ra:->sha:-ma-rA: ->
> sha:me-rA:  (pausal retains original vowel and its penultimate accent
> shamA:ra: because it was lengthened in pause)
>
>
> Garth Grenache, Australia
>
>