From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 14:21:06 CST
Peter Kirk wrote at 8:11 PM on Thursday, March 3, 2005:
>Nevertheless, a single document may for example include passages in
>which qamats is contrasted with qamats qatan and others in which it is
>not. So it would be still be wrong to work on your assumption that the
>interpretation is controlled by the context in any mechanical way.
Which goes to one of my points - unless one assumes inconsistent and
ambiguous usage in a given document there is NO way to indicate a
context-free, three-way distinction using a two-way distinction. Which
means, of course, that the two distinction has not solved the ambiguity
problem.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
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Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
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