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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[4]: Jos 14-21 (was die Flucht ins Prasens (was Ruth))
  • Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 23:05:40 -0400


Dear Rolf,

Many thanks for your succinct description of your method, which has
clarified several things which I was not understanding before. It
makes me regret that I had to use a somewhat negative tone in my last
posting on this subject.

I am left with just this concern. It seems that no-one else on the
list accepts your arguments. I think this is because they, like me, do
not agree with your generalisation from a few minimal pairs that
"WAYYIQTOL and YIQTOL behave similarly as far as ET/RT is concerned,
and QATAL and WEQATAL behave similarly". But, as you have now made
clear, the questions you have recently been putting to the list
recently expect those who reply to implicitly accept this part of your
conclusion, which underlies your mapping from verb paradigms to
aspects. Therefore those (all of us, it seems) who do not accept your
conclusion are ruled out from answering your question. So please do
not claim that your conclusions are confirmed by the fact that no-one
refuted them in answer to your questions.

Peter Kirk





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