I am following my path אני הולך לשיטתי and express my
doubts as to your chances for finding a satisfying explanation for
all these anomalies. I am afraid that your assumption that one person
placed the dagesh and the schwa, in unison. and this with a deep
grammatical or phonological purpose in mind, even though conforming
to the common wisdom, is untenable.
The dagesh, I believe, was placed there a thousand years before the
schwa, by people of far greater authority than the NAQDANIYM. At the
invention of the NIQUD the dagesh became obsolete and redundant, but
the NAQDANIYM left it there out of respect for its antiquity.
The dagesh has nothing to do with the piel as such, but is merely
following the xiriq. If the NIQUD is not as expected relative to the
dagesh, then this means, I think, that the NAQDANIYM deviated from an
older tradition.
Take, for instance, the words BAYIT, ZAYIT, TAYI$, etc.. The lack of
a dagesh in them means, in my opinion, that this is not an "original"
BINYAN.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On May 23, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
If so, is there a guide, a backgroung guiding us onto when or in which
conditions there is dagesh and when or under which conditions there
is no
dagesh?