Re: Anyone conversant in Tagalog here?

On Apr 14, 3:33 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 14, 6:19 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:



On Apr 13, 10:43 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 13, 9:57 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Apr 13, 12:42 am, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12 Apr 2007 20:14:42 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"

For instance, I include Biblical Hebrew among "major languages."

I don't, but I've seen books on it in Borders.

Probably not recently, and probably not more than one textbook.
Certainly not any of the standard reference grammars.

Well, last time I checked, Gesenius was available online anyway in pdf
format.

Yes, they might as well give it away since the English translation is
now just short of 100 years old, and there have been a few significant
discoveries regarding Northwest Semitic languages over the past
century.

Even regarding the grammar of Biblical Hebrew? Just curious. How much
has the grammatical understanding of Biblical Hebrew changed since
Gesenius?

Since 1837???

Perhaps you were referring to Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley. Kautzsch was
certainly a major figure of 19th-century Hebrew philology.

I mean, it is after all a classical language such as Latin, and people
still learn Latin from the reprints of very old primers and grammars.
Of course, there have certainly been new grammars based on new,
fashionable theories, but how much has the substance changed?-

Have you actually never heard of Akkadian or Ugaritic? Does it not
occur to you that the discovery and interpretation of closely related
languages has had an immense impact on the understanding of Hebrew
grammar?

This would indeed be an interesting topic to discuss, if I could
discuss it with somebody who had even the faintest understanding of
good manners. But as it is you, I think I will not deign to answer.

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