Notes on the shift from accusative constructions to prepositional phrases in Hebrew and Arabic

In an article published in the early sixties, M. Bogaert shows certain groups of verbs which in Biblical Hebrew (as well as in other north-western Semitic languages) may govern verbal suffixes instead of ‘dative’prepositions. This phenomenon is called by him ‘non-accusative verbal suffixes’. In his article ‘' et = ’ el “to, towards” in Biblical Hebrew', S. Izre'el argues that the particle ' et sometimes occurs in contexts that elsewhere require the prepositions ' el ‘to, towards’ or ' im ‘with’. He concludes thatwith ' et is a preposition which in Modern Hebrew may be rendered by ' im or ' el , similar to the Hebrew preposition bƏ - which is sometimes translated into English as ‘in’ and at other times as ‘at’, according to the context

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