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  • From: "Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>
  • To: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Article by Andrew Bowling
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:52:04 -0800

Dear Karl,

Having read the article also I find that some of the examples are good, but
do not seem to reflect "Semitic" or "Hebrew" ideas; at least to my way of
thinking of the issue. He gives too broad or general description of the QTL
and YQTL. ISTM that Hebrew grammars are using Indo-European categories,
ideas, etc. to describe phenomena found in Semitic writings. The pigeon hole
approach just does not work. Of course, I do not have a background in
linguistics and its terminology, but the definitions of various terms found
in linguistics is so broad and confusing it is a wonder that anyone is able
to understand one another.

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
----- Original Message -----
From: K Randolph
To: Bryant J. Williams III
Cc: B-Hebrew
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Article by Andrew Bowling


Thanks, Bryant:


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Bryant J. Williams III
<bjwvmw AT com-pair.net> wrote:

Dear List,

See http://www.gial.edu/GIALens/vol1-2/Bowling-Paper.pdf for the article
"The
General/Gnomic Usage of Hebrew Morphologies in the Book of Isaiah" by
Andrew
Bowling

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III



I read the article, and the examples presented in it could be read in more
than one way, including that the qatal and yiqtol are tenseless and
aspectless, but encode for other ideas. He does not prove his claims.


I have already presented what I think are the reasons for the qatal and
yiqtol, and they have only a few equivalents to grammatical concepts found in
Indo-European languages.


Karl W. Randolph.


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