Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Word order

The VSO language group makes up about 10% of the languages in the world (Carnie and Guilfoyle 2000: 3), including most of the West Semitic languages, Egyptian, Berber, Celtic, and other languages (O’Connor 1980: 118).— Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause, page 7
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  1. Robert HolmstedtWed Apr 15, 05:48:00 PM CDT

    The situation is not nearly so clear in Semitic, of course. I respond to Moshavi in a series of blog posts and then in a resulting article (JHS 2010).
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  2. jpsThu Apr 16, 08:56:00 AM CDT

    Rob,

    Yes. I'm aware of your responses and have read them.

    I'm still an unrepentant VSO person, though. : )

    James

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  3. Robert HolmstedtThu Apr 16, 07:55:00 PM CDT

    I find it very strange how many say the same thing but cannot articulate any defense for it. Adhering to a position that one cannot defend is the opposite of scholarship, correct?

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