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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] no to aspect
  • Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:15:54 -0500

The claim of "gemination" is, in my opinion, a mere phantasy. Doubling a letter that is written only once amounts, I am afraid, to a heedless distortion of the biblical text.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 8, 2011, at 2:53 AM, Rolf Furuli wrote:

You are correct when you say that most Semitists view WAYYIQTOL as perfective. But I would ask two questions on the basis of the masoretic rules of pointing and vocalization: Could the gemination of the YOD in the prefix and the position of the stress corroborate the view that the WAY(Y)-prefix only is a conjunction that have a conjunctive force, and not is a semantic marker making WAYYIQTOL different from YIQTOL?





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