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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=592491818-13052004></SPAN>E<SPAN
class=592491818-13052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>xcellent answer,
Peter,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN
class=592491818-13052004>But I trust an Israeli, not necessarily a
rabbi, but one that has studied</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN
class=592491818-13052004>the OT since childhood more than a Westerner whose
mother tongue</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN
class=592491818-13052004>is not Hebrew although the latter might also have
studied the OT and OT</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN
class=592491818-13052004>semantics. Nothing beats native-speaker intuition when
it comes to </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN
class=592491818-13052004>subtleties of </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN
class=592491818-13052004>semantics.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN
class=592491818-13052004>Fritz</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>On 13/05/2004 08:42, Fritz Goerling wrote:<BR><BR>> So,
Peter, <BR>> <BR>> How can this lack of living informants be
overcome? Maybe semanticists <BR>> who have worked<BR>> on the OT corpus
and whose mother tongue is modern Hebrew could be <BR>> involved in
this<BR>> project at some point. Establishing a semantic domain is
<BR>> already quite a subjective <BR>> endeavour, especially when done
by non-native speakers.<BR>> <BR>> Fritz
Goerling<BR>><BR>Excellent questions. Perhaps you can help us to answer the
first one. <BR>There are, however, some serious dangers in using modern
Hebrew, as <BR>there has been significant semantic shift in 2000 years,
especially in <BR>fitting categories first to Graeco-Roman and later to modern
Western <BR>semantic categories. In fact I would suspect that working with
Arabs <BR>might be more profitable, as Arabic has been less affected by
western <BR>thought patterns. But in either case there may well be semantic
shifts <BR>similar to the one which you have noted for BARAKA.<BR><BR><BR>--
<BR>Peter Kirk<BR>peter@qaya.org (personal)<BR>peterkirk@qaya.org (work)<BR><A
href="http://www.qaya.org/">http://www.qaya.org/</A><BR><BR></TT><BR>
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