On 27/11/2004 22:29, Rolf Furuli wrote:I found a way of refining my search based on the Westminster morphology. I get the following results, which basically agree with yours:
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The data above includes only WAYYIQTOLs. The table which the comments above relates to, refers to 715 WAYYIQTOLs of 1st person singular/plural. Of these, 101 have a paragogic he ("cohortative"), 51 are apocopated; 103 could have been apocopated but are not; and 460 could not be apocopated. This shows clearly that non-apocopation was the trend for 1st person-forms; the opposite of what we would expect if a short form was sought whenever possible because the antecedent was a short YAQTUL.
So I started a further search and found 143 words starting with vav-qamats-alef and ending with he. These will include most but not all of the non-apocopated 1st person singular WAYYIQTOLs, as well as cases of. These also include a large number of cases of paragogic he, i.e. he added on after the end of the normal verb root, the opposite of apocopation (and common practice with the cohortative). I don't have time to look at all of these, but it is interesting that the huge majority of both non-apocopated forms and paragogic hes are in the books from Ezra onwards, in the English Bible order, in other words generally either late or poetic books. There are only two of them in the Pentateuch: DEU 1:16,18. This suggests that there is a late tendency to add paragogic he to first person WAYYIQTOLs by analogy with cohortatives.
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