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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: wayyiqtol in zulu and swahili
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:30:05 -0700


Vince,
> was thinking of various discussions on this list in light of my sept
> paper for a linguistics conference: "the syntax and semantics of
> sequence: zulu, swahili and biblical hebrew". i will be arguing for a
> modal analysis crosslinguistically, following up on Palmer's cambridge
> textbook on mood. the idea is that morphologically, sequential forms
> pattern with modality; and syntactically, sequential forms pattern
> with modality; and that palmer's analysis appears to be the right sort
> of approach, though the precise formal-semantic analysis of sequence
> as a combination of mood and tense remains a research project.

This is a nice "teaser"; can you expand on it? Bib info on Palmer
would be nice, too...

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
A Bible that's falling apart means a life that isn't.




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