vav conversive
Trevor Peterson
06PETERSON at cua.edu
Thu Nov 21 10:31:09 EST 2002
>===== Original Message From Jane Harper <jharper at woh.rr.com> =====
>On another list, I'm watching an enthusiastic discussion of theological
>conclusions reached because of the way vav-conversive verbs at the
>beginning of sentences are translated. One of the participants makes
>extensive reference to Driver's book, which if I understand it correctly
>advocates an aspectarian view of the verb.
>
>Is there a scholarly consensus about the vav-conversive at this point in
>history? If so, what is it?
Not really. I think there may be isolated features of its use that find
general agreement, but there are still several different approaches in
competition.
Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics
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