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  • From: "Moon-Ryul Jung" <moon AT saint.soongsil.ac.kr>
  • To: b-hebrew
  • Subject: Re: Re[4]: die Flucht ins Prasens, Peter
  • Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:34:25


On 05/31/99, ""Bryan Rocine" <brocine AT earthlink.net>" wrote:
> So we may view the X-yiqtol
> clause as a good partner for the weqatal clause in terms of
> "stativity." The X-yiqtol clause, in its use of the 2nd
> position verb and the fientive yiqtol arrests the mainline
> of instructions to elaborate upon a particular procedure.
>
> At the same time we can see the value of using the fientive
> yiqtol (albeit in a "stative" syntax) as a complement to the
> attributive weqatal. We expect there to be some alternation
> between stativity and activity on the mainline and
> elaborative portions of a discourse. Either the mainline
> will be active and the offline stative as in Historical
> Narrative or or the mainline will be stative and the offline
> will have an active element as we see in Instructional
> Discourse. Review:
>
> Historical Narrative:
> mainline: wayyiqtol ("verbal" syntax, fientive verb)
> off-the-line: X-qatal ("stative" syntax, attributive verb)
>
> Instructional Discourse:
> mainline: weqatal ("verbal" syntax, attributive verb)
> off-the-line: X-yiqtol ("stative" syntax, fientive verb)
>

It is reasonable for attributive verbs to describe off-line information.
Why is it then that fientive verbs are used to describe off-line
inforamtion
In Instructional Discourse? What characteristics of instructional
discourse
makes it happen?

Moon-Ryul Jung
Assistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea.





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