David,
It appears to me that you got what I am saying, to wit your judgement that "this proposal is most unlikely (actually, I would go as far as to say impossible)." I wish you would have given us a reasoned explanation why this is impossible. Hebrew may easily pack six personal pronouns in one word. This is how spoken Hebrew keeps producing more and more words out of the same root. Superficiality, in my opinion, is a tremendous virtue in linguistics. Being overly sophisticated may readily lead one to overshoot the target. Language is a very very simple device. Let's be concrete and see if we can find some common ground. Do you agree that the inflected verb $AMART, 'you [female singular] guarded' is the coming together of the act $AMAR and the following personal pronoun AT for the actor, or is this last T just an abstract morpheme, a mere adjunct grammatical marker?
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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