To: moon AT sogang.ac.kr, b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu
Subject: Re: bereshit and mereshit.
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:07:17 EST
In a message dated 3/18/2002 7:18:38 AM Eastern Standard Time,
moon AT sogang.ac.kr writes:
> I accept Rashi's opinion primarily because once
> taking Hebrew from Dan Fleming in grad school at NYU,
> I mis-translated something and was very embarrassed.
> In fact it was this very thing, that a VSO clause should be
> a pluperfect, that it does not move the narrative along.
DO you mean SVO?
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If I understand Liz correctly she means VSO as she stated -