Re: Two pairs of technical terms


Joe Fineman wrote:
"Stefano MAC:GREGOR" <esperantujo@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Nouns decline to form different forms for case and number.

In Hebrew, nouns do not inflect on the Latin pattern -- a house, of a
house, to a house, etc.; they have forms that mean a house, the house
of..., my house, thy house, his house, etc. I certainly wouldn't call
those cases, but I think one refers to the pattern as a declension.

I did once hear someone who had studied Latin & started on Hebrew say
in wonderment: A Hebrew noun has a form that indicates that the
following noun is in the genitive case. %^)

That's less silly than it appears, because in the Semitic languages
that haven't lost their case endings (Akkadian and Arabic), the second
noun in a construct _is_ in the genitive.

But attaching the possessive pronouns isn't declension -- it's
suffixing.

In Aramaic, nouns have _three_ "states" in their declension: absolute,
construct, and emphatic. ("Emphatic" isn't a good name, because it
refers to the form with the suffixed definite article, which eventually
became the unmarked form of the noun,)

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