From: Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Sep 21 1997 - 06:40:43 EDT
At 11:14 AM 9/20/97 +0000, John M. Moe wrote:
>I am suprised that no one has mentioned that cognate accusitives are
>very common in Heb. I was hoping somone like Dale Wheeler might take
>this opportunity to fill in some more of our Heb. Blanks.
As a matter of fact, because it is common in Hebrew one of the grammars I
looked at claims that the cognate accusative is a Semiticism. That seems
unlikely to me, since Smyth documents it for Classical Greek.
Jonathan
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