Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Arnaud:

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Arnaud Fournet
<fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
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>  Chavoux and Arnaud:
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>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Chavoux Luyt <chavoux AT gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am one who thinks functionally, not formally.
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> What does "thinks functionally" mean?
>

There is an article on it at http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Hebrew_thought.

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> Modern grammars (from the
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>> last few centuries) assign functions to the Hebrew forms, functions
>> derived
>> from European languages.
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> What do Traditional Hebrew grammars say?
> What does Ibn Quraysh say on that kind of issues?
> A.
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Did Ibn Quraysh have anything to say on these issues? Where?

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> So what are the main functions of the qatal and yiqtol forms of Biblical
>> Hebrew verbs? As far as I can tell, they have no equivalent in European
>> languages, hence no terminology to describe them.
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> We are now about 400 years in the concrete task of describing mankind's
> languages.
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> No terminology??
> I'd like to learn more on that.
>

OK, you describe the functions of the Hebrew qatal and yiqtal apart from
tense and aspect. What linguistic terminology applies?

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> I've never heard about that person names "Furuli". Who else ever wrote on
> Hebrew?
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He is a member of this list, but doesn’t post often. He is a professor
teaching Hebrew at a university.

>
> Arnaud Fournet
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> Karl W. Randolph.