From: "Jerry Shepherd" <jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [b-hebrew] Question about Suffixes on Infinitive Construct
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:18:32 -0600
List Members,
I have told a Hebrew exegesis class I am teaching that suffixes on the
infinitive construct are much more likely to be subject rather than
object, and that this is especially the case with a beth or kaph
prefixed preposition, but that with a lamed preposition the suffix is
more likely to be an object. I've looked in several grammars (Kittel,
Lambdin, Weingreen, Greenberg, Jouon-Muraoka, Arnold and Choi, van der
Merwe, etc.), and I think I have fairly represented the case, but I'm
wondering if anyone on the list might have a better feel than I do with
regard to some kind of percentage with regard to subject vs. object.
Thanks.