Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Bryan wrote:
> Sorry, Dave, I forgot...
> 
> There is a (statistically small, but) fairly large number of clause-initial
> weqatals that appear to carry the main plotline of historical narrative. 
> I.e., they are 'unconverted' and seemingly interchangable with wayyiqtol. 
> See Longacre, "Weqatal Forms in BH Prose," BH and Discourse Linguistics,
> ed. Bergen, Dallas: S.I.L., 1994.

What I'm hoping to do is compare clause-initial qatals without waw 
to clause-initial qatals with waw...

Dave Washburn
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