isaac,
i was really trying to encapsulate my objection into a nutshell, but now there is no escape from
a more detailed account. actually, my remark about gender generalizes also to person.
in isa 22:4, if you changed the pronoun from ANI to HU/HI etc the minni will change to mimkha/mimekh etc, making a difference. thus, separating MINNI ("from me") to MIN+ANI, as you did, at least makes grammatical sense, because person/gender etc are indeed involved.
now, in job 31:7 if you change the noun DEREKH to, say, HAR or YAM (masculine), or AZ (not even a noun) the minni will not change. thus, in this case, separating MINNI to MIN+HI, as you also did (furthermore, specifically arguing that HI represents the noun DEREKH) makes absolutely no grammatical sense, because in the phoneme MINNI (="from") person and gender are not yet specified. only the word which follows may specify them (or may choose not to):
MINNI DEREKH (f), MINNI YAM(m), MINNI HAR(m), MINNI AZ(-).
(the reason i ignored person in my first response is that in this construction the only possible person value can be 3rd.)
nir cohen
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:15:03 -0500, Isaac Fried wrote
> I am afraid you are looking for "gender" where there is none. In Hebrew a boy says (actually identify or tag himself)
> as ANIY אני and so does a girl.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Jan 6, 2012, at 2:22 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:
> i fully agree that Isa 22:4 minniy expresses gender ("from me") whereas job
> 31:7 does not express gender ("from"). so, the HI=road part must be wrong.
>
> nir cohen
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