Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>]

here's a thought to chew on....

let's buy all the business about wayyiqtol, etc, etc., a al longacre,
etc. 

is it possible that a weqatal could provide a subchain or subbackbone
or a subwhatever for a mainline wayyiqtol?? kind'a a multidimensional
something or other, but hey...

mainline......................
                |
                ---> submainline.....................

crucially, not "offline".

so instead of having  X qatal --> wayyiqtol, period
possible sequence  Xqatal --> wayyiqtol --> weqatal, where weqatal
both online and yet not quite online.

don't know. too wild. can't believe I'm trying to advance this model,
but don't get me started. ;-)  might add just enough flex to make the
model viable, though. hmmmmmm.

what say? 
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Vincent DeCaen, Ph.D.  <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>

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