Hi Karl,What defines "fit"? What about literary conventions? Irony? Sarcasm?
Perhaps I'm wrong. I realise your actually methodology is different --
your working in lexicography, Rolf on the verbal system -- but are the
assumptions different? That is, do you think any given lexeme will have
some meaning which is consistent across its uses? This is what I got
from your treatment of the Hithpael binyan: you were seeking to find
something consistent between all the examples, which you gave as
"reflexive". It really depends how tightly you hold to this and what you
do with the examples that don't "fit".
Regards,
David Kummerow.
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