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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: John Leake <jesleake AT yahoo.co.uk>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect
  • Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 07:07:26 -0700

John:

I notice that there are final nuns on some plural verbs in Biblical Hebrew, is that somehow related to what you mention below?

Karl W. Randolph.

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:29 AM, John Leake <jesleake AT yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Indeed, Krahmalkov maintains that the tripartite distinction between indicative, subjunctive and jussive was strictly maintained in Phoenician, and that this continued into Neo-Punic. In the last phases of Punic the subjunctive was orthographically represented, but the subjunctive and jussive were always distinguishable from the indicative since Phoenician maintained the final nun of the 2nd and 3rd persons plural in the indicative prefix form)

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