Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>]

Dear Rolf,

wow, thanks for all the time and effort you have put into this thread!

you wrote:
> Dear Lee,
> 
> I wrote in a post about a week ago that  stativity is not a semantic
> property for verbs in Hebrew, 

how do you know?  can you give me a proof-text in which it is impossible. 
i'm very interested because i believe very nearly just this:  the qatal
intrinsically means  "the state of the subject at the time being talked
about."  it's very like a perfect; it's very adjectival. (btw, i know the
difference between perfect and perfectIVE.)

thanks, Rolf, especially since i know you've been very busy.    i hope i
have caught you before you might be sick of it!  ;-)

thanks,
Bryan