Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

> Dave,
> 
> The browser side of my ISP is having problems, and I have not been able to 
> look at your
> website.  When you first used this term WP in the Gen 2:19 discussion, you 
> adequately
> described the surface structure, so I know what you're talking about.  But 
> you did not state
> in that post what the letters "WP" stand for.  Maybe that will help us 
> understand your
> perception of this grammatical form.

WP == waw+prefix form.  It's a morphological description that 
doesn't inject any functional presuppositions.  I adopted it from F. I. 
Andersen, "The Sentence in Biblical Hebrew" (The Hague: Mouton, 
1974).
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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