Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Morphology, words and the waw
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:50:30 +0200
If I understand correctly, the grammar books (Ein Qore, Aklah we-
Aklah...) date much after the Masoretic work in question, the
vocalization of Tanakh. Saadia, too, wrote his basic grammar some two
centuries after the Masoretes vocalized the text. The events may
appear close to us, but they were actually quite removed in time.
Vadim Cherny
Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
The Masoretes wrote many treatises on various aspects
of grammar. By the time of the Masoretes, grammatical investigation
into
Arabic was very influential. Saadia Gaon's grammar (perhaps the first
full
grammar of Hebrew, and definitely the first one that has largely
survived)
was written after, if not during, Saadia Gaon's stay in Tiberias where
he
met and spoke to the Masoretes themselves.