With all due respect to Chomsky, may I suggest that he was writing at a time
that (modern) Hebrew was spoken primarily by people who studied it as a
second language? This is no longer the case. I am a third-generation native
Hebrew speaker, and I can tell you that my sense of grammar and language is
quite different from the Indo-European one.
Obviously I am not claiming that modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew are the
same. Neither are modern and Shakespearian English -- or, for that matter,
everyday spoken and formal written English of our own time.
Best wishes
Naama Zahavi-Ely
[b-hebrew] Chomsky and Hebrew,
Naama Zahavi-Ely, 06/17/2009