John: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, John Leake <[email protected]> wrote:
> Presumably when you're talking about 'tense'/'aspect' in Hebrew and its > great difference from cognate languages, Karl, you're not including > Phoenician and Ugaritic? I would take a lot to persuade me that Hebrew > functions radically differently from these languages. And with the > exception of waw-consecutive, I don't see that much difference from the > basic Arabic system. > I know none of these cognate languages, so what I talk about refers to Biblical Hebrew only. What I was told about Mishnaic and modern Israeli Hebrew says that these two cognate languages are very different from Biblical Hebrew. > > John Leake > > Karl W. Randolph.
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