RT Article
T1 Qumran Hebrew Qal Prefix Conjugation Forms with Mater w after the First Radical: Or: ‮htsṿrh ʾṿmrt tdṿrshny‬‎
JF Dead Sea discoveries
VO 31
IS 2
SP 201
OP 222
A1 Stadel, Christian 1982-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1896398731
AB Forms like ‮ידורשהו‬‎, viz. qal stem prefix conjugation forms with an object suffix in which a mater lectionis indicates the presence of a rounded vowel after the first radical, constitute the only unique Qumran Hebrew morphological trait that has no parallels in other traditions of the language. In this paper, I suggest a new explanation for the development of these forms (and of orthographically similar qal stem imperatives and infinitives). While previous research tried to explain the forms as resulting from analogy, I propose that they are (by and large) the result of regular sound change: vowel deletion of the unstressed stem vowel followed by the emergence of an epenthetic copy vowel that originated in the masculine plural forms.
K1 anaptyxis
K1 vowel deletion
K1 prefix conjugation
K1 Morphology
K1 Phonology
DO 10.1163/15685179-bja10051