wayyiqtol, II
Vincent DeCaen
decaen at chass.utoronto.ca
Wed Oct 17 14:06:03 EDT 2001
re semantics of wayyiqtol/weqatal.
i forgot the best part!! since i've reduced conjunction, negation,
mood, tense, &c, all to one operator with different scopes, i can explain
why negation with consecutives reverses the verbal forms (seemingly
again!): since impf vs perfect is a matter of counting "not"s, one more
"not" negating the proposition (ie., negative particle lo) will have this
effect automatically. sweet.
cheers
V --
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Dr Vincent DeCaen <decaen at chass.utoronto.ca>
c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor
University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1
Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative, www.chass.utoronto.ca/~decaen/hsei/
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