Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Lee,
I believe Rolf was saying his statistics support my contention that 
there is no separate weqatal.  What are the 2 components that you 
see?  You may have mentioned them before, but apparently I 
missed it if you did.

> Dear Rolf,
> Thanks for restating your view.
> As I wrote in response to Dave, I do not believe in a 4 component model; I
> accept only 2 components to the finite verb system of BH.  And I am aware of
> the statistics below.  However, your statistics do not explain the weqatal,
> its origin, or its function.  Your post is a good example of what I said
> earlier.  The weqatal has been described, but not explained.
> Lee R. Martin
> 
> >Some statisticts: Looking at qatals with prefixed waw in 1st and 2nd person
> >singular, I found 1637 examples in BHS. Of these, 1222 had ultimate stress
> >(including 83 of the lamed aleph and lamed he groups), and 415 had
> >penultimate stress (including 278 of the lamed aleph and lamed he groups).
> >Of the verbs with ultimate stress 1082 evidently have future meaning, and
> >of the verbs with penultimate stress 148 evidently have future meaning.
> >
> >The fact that 12 per cent of the weqatals with penultimate stress do not
> >have a future meaning and that 36 per cent of the weqatals with penultimate
> >stress have future meaning accords with Dave's suggestions above.
> 
> 
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Dave Washburn
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