adjectives
Jim West
jwest at Highland.Net
Tue Jun 9 11:36:25 EDT 1998
Thanks for the help. My main interest is historical. I am curious
specifically about how the masculine and feminine forms of the adjective
were compressed into one form. So I offer the following reconstruction and
ask for any clarification you all can offer:
1- in the earliest stages, certain adjectives used both masculine and
feminine forms. I.e., certain adjectives were used only of males and others
were used only of females.
2- at some point, adjectives which were only applied to males began to be
applied to females, and vice versa.
3- At some point this usage forced the case endings of the feminine form to
be abandoned in favor of the masculine form.
But why?
Thanks,
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Bible
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest at highland.net
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