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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Digest, Vol 108, Issue 25
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:52:38 -0500

The grammar you espouse is irrelevant for the attached or inserted personal pronouns. What does it matter what is the "gender" of the object? A personal pronoun is merely a universal name, or identifying tag, temporarily attached to the object referred to.
I have given these examples before:

DAT, 'religion', DAT-IY = DAT-HIY, '(he is a) religious man', DAT-IY = DAT-ANIY, 'my religion', DAT-O = DAT-HU, 'his religion', DAT-AM = DAT-HEM, 'their religion'.

AS-U-R = AR-HU-R, '(he is) bound', AS-IY-R =AS-HI-R, '(he is a) prisoner'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

isaac,

i was really trying to encapsulate my objection into a nutshell, but now there is no escape from
a more detailed account. actually, my remark about gender generalizes also to person.

in isa 22:4, if you changed the pronoun from ANI to HU/HI etc the minni will change to mimkha/mimekh etc, making a difference. thus, separating MINNI ("from me") to MIN+ANI, as you did, at least makes grammatical sense, because person/gender etc are indeed involved.

now, in job 31:7 if you change the noun DEREKH to, say, HAR or YAM (masculine), or AZ (not even a noun) the minni will not change. thus, in this case, separating MINNI to MIN+HI, as you also did (furthermore, specifically arguing that HI represents the noun DEREKH) makes absolutely no grammatical sense, because in the phoneme MINNI (="from") person and gender are not yet specified. only the word which follows may specify them (or may choose not to):

MINNI DEREKH (f), MINNI YAM(m), MINNI HAR(m), MINNI AZ(-).

(the reason i ignored person in my first response is that in this construction the only possible person value can be 3rd.)

nir cohen



On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:15:03 -0500, Isaac Fried wrote
> I am afraid you are looking for "gender" where there is none. In Hebrew a boy says (actually identify or tag himself)
> as ANIY אני and so does a girl.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Jan 6, 2012, at 2:22 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

> i fully agree that Isa 22:4 minniy expresses gender ("from me") whereas job
> 31:7 does not express gender ("from"). so, the HI=road part must be wrong.
>
> nir cohen



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