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SHORT NOTES USES OF THE SEMITIC DEMONSTRATIVE ELEMENT Z IN HEBREW The demonstrative particle 4/d/g is shared by all the Semitic languages of the Northwest and South, and shows an interesting semantic development which can be traced in Hebrew (as in its sister dialects 1)). The most common use of this particle is, of course, as a simple adjectival demonstrative of the 'this-the man' or 'the man-the this' types, which need no illustration. The next stage in development is to give to the adjectival demonstrative the force of a substantive, 'this man/thing', which again is common enough to need no elabora- tion. From this, it is but a short step to the use of the demonstrative particle as a relative: 'the man, the one in the house' = 'the man who is in the house', and Aramaic and Arabic and their cognate dialects have this as their usual construction. But here Hebrew turns aside from the main stream, preferring the element !in company with East Semitic and the coastal dialects of Phoenicia, at least in its colloquial 2). 1) The various orthographic forms in which this element appears in the various Semitic languages is an interesting study in
Vetus Testamentum – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1955
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