Crackers

[David Gil]

Frans and everybody,

Hebrew has the same gap!  I thought I was imagining it, so I 
doublechecked with another native speaker of Hebrew, who almost cracked 
up in surprise when realizing that you couldn't say "Father cracked the 
vase" in Hebrew.

David

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David Gil

Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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