David,
I have horror of abstract arguments and vague courses of reasoning. If you are interested in keeping this discussion going, then we must keep it concrete and focused. I asked you if you [not some doctoral candidate at MIT] agree that
$AMART = $AMAR+AT
$AMARTA = $AMAR+ATAH
$AMARNU = $AMAR+ANU
$AMARTEM = $AMAR+ATEM where AT, ATAH, ANU and ATEM are the stand-alone Hebrew personal pronouns, but did not receive a clear answer. These equalities are so obvious, or apparently obvious, that they have surly been observed over time by many a discerning Hebraist. As I said before, even the usually reticent Gesenius remarks on it somewhere in his grammar book. Also on the similar composite structure of the prefixed forms.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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