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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
  • Cc: Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Vav Nun Suffix
  • Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:44:22 -0500

You are right, except that what is "transparent" with "suffixation" is also transparent with "prefixation" and "infixation". BTW, is the "suffix" -TI of SHAMARTI, 'I have guarded', also "transparent"?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Nov 21, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Arnaud Fournet wrote:

I would not exactly describe this as a fusion as the suffixation of -ta and -nu is transparently connected with atah and anu.
This is a rather commonplace case of suffixation.





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