On 11/01/2007 19:13, Peter Kirk wrote:Probably not a master's degree, but maybe the basis of an article.
> ...
> Given the morphological database, it would actually be rather trivial to
> discover the proportions of homonyms for each letter, among three letter
> verbal roots attested in the Hebrew Bible. I may even do this!
>
>
I have just done a simple study of the percentage of homonyms among
biblical Hebrew verb roots (triliteral only, Aramaic excluded). This is
based on the Westminster morphological database - only on the existence
of the root, not at all on its frequency. .....
Conclusion: This approach doesn't help one way or the other. It
certainly doesn't prove Karl's hypothesis. Nor does it disprove it.
...
Do I get a master's degree for this, about an hour's work (since I had
the basic database set up already)?
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Peter Kirk
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