[b-hebrew] b-hebrew Uncancellable meaning and Hebrew verbs
David Kummerow
farmerjoeblo at hotmail.com
Sat Jul 4 09:01:17 EDT 2009
> Driver did not accept that the form "only could
> be past perfective" as DK has claimed.
>
Hi Rolf,
Please don't misrepresent me. I've never claimed that WAYYIQTOL could
only ever be past perfective. If you'll read my review again and my
other article you'll see otherwise. Besides, if I were to hold such a
view I would already have demolished my own position with my argument as
to the unsuitability of viewing semantics as uncancellable meaning!
Please read my statement in context -- it refers solely to Gen 12:1 and
no further.
I note that in your post you're still running with the principal of
uncancellable meaning and that your isolated contexts are revealing the
uncancellable meaning/semantics of WAYYIQTOL. Still no discussion of Gen
12:1. Again: please show how it and other cases like it is imperfective
under your analysis. Please don't turn the question around -- the
question is for you and your analysis. How can wayyo'mer in Gen 12:1 be
construed imperfectively? And how might such an imperfective analysis be
rendered in English translation, since "And he said" is past perfective?
Thanks,
David Kummerow.
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