Yitzhak,
Thanks for the plug. For what it is worth, I personally disagree with
Goetze and lean towards the view that the doubling indicates
plurality as is common in Semitic (and non-Semitic) languages. This
was argued well by Joseph Greenberg (though I haven't put up a
summary of this paper yet):
Greenberg, Joseph H. “The Semitic ‘intensive’ as verbal plurality: a
study of grammaticalization. Pages 577-587 in Semitic studies in
honor of Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday.
Edited by Alan S Kaye. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1991.
I summarize Kouwenberg's study of the D-stem (piel) in Akkadian in
which he reaches the same conclusions:
http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/kouwenberg-njc-gemination-
in-the-akkadian-verb-studia-semitica-neerlandica-33-assen-van-
gorcum-1997/
Peter Bekins
On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:52 AM, b-hebrew-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
Peter Bekins discusses one article on the Piel here:
http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/goetze-albrecht-the-so-
called-intensive-of-the-semitic-languages-jaos-vol-62-no-1-
march-1942-1-8/
Also relevant is his discussion here:
http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-complicated-
morphology-of-the-semitic-binyanim/
Yitzhak Sapir
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