Hi Rolf,
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>
> The areas you mention were not neglected, but they were viewed of little
> importance,
> and in the study the more important issues were stressed.
How is paragogic nun of little importance for you study? The basic
consensus has been that they are diagnostic of the long prefix verb.
How are the third-person suffix pronouns augmented with nun not
important? Again, the basic consensus has been that they are diagnostic
of the long prefix verb.
How are the distributions of qatal and yiqtol with "yesterday" and
"tomorrow" of little importance when they seem to be distributionally
the same as English?
Why aren't performatives seen to be important when the interaction of
performative semantics would seem to have bearing upon the meaning of
the verbal construction (see Anstey's dissertation, for example).
Why isn't the default anterior use of qatal investigated when this would
seem to me be strongly relevant?
Etc etc?
Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo
Regards,
David Kummerow.
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