Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

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?