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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: WP
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:40:47 -0700



> 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
A Bible that's falling apart means a life that isn't.




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