Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew
The present article summarizes the research assembled in my book <i>Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew</i> (1990), which in turn was based on my doctoral dissertation of a decade earlier, “Evidence for Spoken Hebrew in Biblical Times” (1980). The following linguistic issues are surveyed: gender...
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| description | The present article summarizes the research assembled in my book <i>Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew</i> (1990), which in turn was based on my doctoral dissertation of a decade earlier, “Evidence for Spoken Hebrew in Biblical Times” (1980). The following linguistic issues are surveyed: gender neutralization (in both verbs and pronouns), the merger of III-ʾ and III-y verbs, the adjectival clause, and the genitive exponent. |
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