http://benabuya.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/ looking for alternative explanations Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:43:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://benabuya.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-680 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:31:17 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-680 hi.good site.

]]> http://benabuya.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-15 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:53:10 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-15 I suppose one could make a case that if a locative survives anywhere, it survives in the word for “home”, because “going home” is such a commonly expressed notion. Compare “ite domum” in Latin, and the lack of a preposition in English.

]]> http://benabuya.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-7 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:51:33 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-7 Yes, the most common example of it in Israeli Hebrew is with the noun בית, where going הביתה means “going home”. I’ve never seen תל אביבה – that’s interesting! Normally when dealing with a genitive construction it is the first word (the “regens”) that takes the suffix. So, בארה שבע, for example.

]]> http://benabuya.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-6 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:23:43 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-6 I find it interesting that the “creators” of Modern Hebrew saw fit to incorporate this feature of language – בוא הנה, עלייה ארצה, even תל אביבה, if indeed the feature was considered by scholars to have obsolesced already by Mishnaic times. I wonder whether other, unequivocally archaic, features found their way into the modern language?

]]> http://benabuya.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-5 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:07:03 +0000 http://deba.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/my-honours-thesis/#comment-5 Wow! Sounds useful and impressively dry!

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