Well, maybe. And maybe a native biblical Hebrew speaker would find a semantic link between the various senses of my "suffixes" and call further distinction "semantic hair-splitting".isWhat makes the third radical in, say, pr-derived roots a suffix? Suffix
something employed across the words with the same meaning. ...Not necessarily. In Russian, the various verbal prefixes have up to
seven distinct meanings, according to Terence Wade's "A Comprehensive
Russian Grammar".
As native Russian speaker, I would call this an exaggeration, semantic
hair-splitting.
...Are you saying that cavepersons were incapable of coining new words? Yet somehow they seem to have developed human language from nothing.
Well, this depends what you mean by "deliberate". Yes, it was the
conscious act of some human to coin a new root and suffix combination.
Hardly a caveperson, what do you think?
...
But of course! This is the whole point! The Hebrew morphology isn't complex
at all. It is beautifully simple. ...
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