From: Bill Rea <bsr15 AT exchange.canterbury.ac.nz>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] VSO vs SVO
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 11:45:30 +1200 (NZST)
Dave wrote:-
>We've been down this road before, and the upside-down methodology is
>the one that assumes, a priori, that the form most common *within the
>limited and specialized corpus that has come down to us,* is the most
>fundamental one.
If your assertion is correct then the question become unaswerable.
To decide whether Hebrew is VSO or SVO requires evidence. If the
only evidence we have is deemed an unreliable witness then we are
stuck.
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