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Subject: [b-hebrew] Prepositive accents repeated on the tone syllable
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:33:06 -0700
According to GKC 15l, "In many MSS as well as in Baer's editions of the
text" postpositive and prepositive accents are repeated on the tone
syllable, to mark the accent. But in BHS and the Snaith edition this
happens regularly only with the postpositive pashta, and very
occasionally with telisha qetanna and with tsinnor/zarqa, but never, at
least in BHS with the prepositive accents. GKC gives only one example
with a prepositive accent, a telisha gedola.
What I am wanting to discover is how a prepositive accent is positioned
when it is repeated on the tone syllable. Is it positioned well over to
the right, as is commonly the actual prepositive accent, or centred and
perhaps to the left of a vowel, like most other accents? What happens
when the tone syllable is the first syllable? Is the accent ever written
twice on the same syllable? Or is this repetition of the accent so rare,
with prepositive accents, that it can be ignored?
--
Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
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[b-hebrew] Prepositive accents repeated on the tone syllable,
Peter Kirk, 09/08/2003