Re: Be and Have in Hebrew, and ACC case

John Atkinson wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

> > No, she did not refer to an object marker. She referred to "ACC case," a
> > morphological category that does not exist in Modern Hebrew and is
> > barely visible as a fossil in Masoretic Hebrew.
>
> Barry Blake, "Case", CUP:
>
> "1.1: Case is a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of
> relationship they bear to their heads. Traditionally the term refers to
> inflectional marking [...]
>
> "1.2: The definition of case given in section 1.1 above can be regarded as
> a central definition. There are also manifestations of case that do not
> [...] form a system for marking nouns, at least not in an obvious sense,
> inasmuch as the exponents are prepositions or postpositions."
>
> Is "et" not a preposition?

It doesn't work like any (other) preposition in Hebrew. It only marks
definite direct objects; prepositions aren't restricted to specific
semantic roles or (in)definite objects.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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