[b-hebrew] tenses - Deut1:44

Vadim Cherny VadimCherny at mail.ru
Mon Sep 19 15:06:49 EDT 2005


> You appear to be under the impression that "I (you, he, etc) will X" is
> "the future tense" of the English verb X.
>

No. I specifically mentioned that both English and Hebrew use grammatical 
future tense in idiomatic form. That form originally arosed from the future 
tense, but later idiomatic forms became semantically different from future 
time reference. Neither in English, nor in Hebrew that development 
invalidates existence of tenses in general.

Vadim Cherny 




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