From: Henry Churchyard <churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Phonology
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:15:18 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Phonology
> From: "Matthew Anstey" <manstey AT portal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:07:29 -0700
> With your phonological knowledge, maybe you can explain more
> satisfactorily the strange phenomonen of the definite article
> supposedly with the 3fs qatal (and a few other) forms, as in Ruth
> 1.22. It is dying to be read as a participle according to syntax,
> but the accent is wrong. What do you think?
A traditional analysis would say this is an example of the article
with "relative force", or would cast in doubt the correctness of the
accent placement (see Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley p. 447). I don't know
that phonology really has any special additional explanation to offer
here (hashshAbha).