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  • From: "Joseph Brian Tucker" <music AT riverviewcog.org>
  • To: b-hebrew
  • Subject: Re: Wayyiqtol Quiz
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:45:29


Dave Washburn wrote concerning: wayyiqtol represents a situation
subjectively as Perfective:

<<Aspect is not in view in the Hebrew verbal system>>

I am unclear as to what that means.

I was under the impression that the conjugations do not indicate tense, but
indicate aspect (relation of an action to the passage of time.)

Am I missing something here?

Todah
Joseph Brian Tucker
Riverview, MI
music AT riverviewcog.org




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