Philippi's law
Philippi's law refers to a sound rule in Biblical Hebrew first identified by F.W.M. Philippi in 1878, but has since been refined by Thomas O. Lambdin.[1][2]
Essentially, in Biblical Hebrew, sometimes the sound /i/ shifted to /a/, but the reason for this development was unclear or debated.[3] It is "universally supposed to be operative", according to linguists in the field, but criticized as "Philippi's law falls woefully short of what one would expect of a 'law' in historical phonology...."[4]
Some critics suggested that it might not even be a rule in Hebrew, but rather a sound rule in
Proto-Semitic" in origin.[6][7] Philippi's law is also used to explain the vowel shift of Proto-Semitic bint for daughter to the Hebrew word bat (בת) and many other words.[8]
See also
References
- ^ Philippi, F. W. M. (1878). "Das Zahlwort Zwei im Semitischen". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 32: 21–98.
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Thomas O. Lambdin (1985). "Philippi's Law Reconsidered". In Ann Kort; Scott Morschauser (eds.). Biblical and Related Studies Presented to Samuel Iwry. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. pp. 135–145. ISBN 9780931464232.
- S2CID 161219913.
- ISBN 9780931464232.
- ISBN 9780931464553. (citing several sources in footnotes 19-27).
- ISBN 9780931464232.
- ^ Huehnergard, John. "Philippi’s Law." Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. Edited by: Geoffrey Khan. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. URL. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
- ISBN 9788876536298. Pages 88, 90, 117, 138, 147, 223, 279, 293 (n. 1).
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