On 31/07/2003 13:22, Ted Hopp wrote:
On Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:17 PM, Peter Kirk wrote:
I'm wondering: are there examples of individual texts where metegs on
hataf
vowels vary in position? For instance, in BHS, which clearly uses a
medial
meteg, does the meteg also appear at times on the right or the left of a
hataf vowel? I'm wondering if this isn't just a style issue that need not
be
handled by Unicode at all.
Yes, there are variations in BHS from place to place here. ...
*sigh*
...Here are
some statistics for the WTS BHS text which I got from Joan Wardell last
year: /meteg/ occurs 78 times centred in a /hataf vowel/ (but never
centred in /hataf patah/), six times to the left and twice to the right.
But the example you posted earlier from BHS showed the meteg centered in a
hataf patah.
Ted
Yes, you're right. So there must be something wrong with my data. I
looked again at the raw data and found 50 examples of hataf patah with
meidal meteg and 28 of hataf segol with medial meteg, but none of hataf
qamats with medial meteg.
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Peter Kirk
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