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vav conversive consecutive

From: a.c.smith AT juno.com (Andrew C Smith)
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: vav conversive consecutive
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 21:25:46 EDT

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:20:44 -0400 "Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>
writes:

>I wonder why my earlier question did not illicit any responses
>on-list. I am under the impression that folks still learn their Hebrew
from texts
>which teach the "waw-conversive," that a prefixed vav(or waw) converts
>yiqtols to qatals and qatals to yiqtols. I know Jouon-Muraoka prefers
>the term "waw-inversive", Waltke and O'Connor prefers the term
>"vav-relative", and Gesenius, "vav-consecutive",

...and some call it the "vav-conservative" and some call it the
"reversing vav"...

- Andy Smith

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vav conversive consecutive, Andrew C Smith, 09/03/1998