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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:39:57 -0700
From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
Subject: [b-hebrew] Hebrew "Nominative"
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"It seems to be the agreed interpretation of many languages with pronominal
representation of all core relations on the verb that any noun phrases
expressing core arguments are adjuncts in a kind of apposition with the
bound pronoun and that the bound pronouns bear the grammatical relations."
Barry J. Blake, Case, Cambridge UP, 1993, page 52.
Thus, in a Biblical Hebrew clause with a transitive finite verb, the
"nominative" noun phrase might be analyzed* as "appositional," limiting the
subject represented by the bound pronoun.
What analytical benefits might be realized using this approach?
greetings,
Clay Bartholomew
*The traditional approach is to view this "nominative" noun phrase as the
subject of the verb.
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