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Title: Re[3]: WEQATAL NONVOLITIVE

On  03/01/99 (Re[3]: WEQATAL NONVOLITIVE) Peter Kirk wrote:


> Dear Prof. Niccacci,
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> You wrote:
>
> "I do not quite understand what do you mean by "matrix of the priestly
> blessing" and "the blessing itself"?"
>
> Here I was referring to Numbers 6:23b and 27, the words spoken to
> Aaron and his sons, as the matrix or setting of the blessing,
> distinguishing it from the words of blessing embedded in it, verses
> 24-26. The matrix is an instruction to the priests, but there is a
> weqatal "non-volitive" form there. The blessing itself, with weyiqtol
> forms, is volitive in a different sense of the priests desiring
> blessings from God.
>
> In the light of an off-list comment, may I ask for a clarification:
> are you saying that weqatal is always nonvolitive and semantically
> marked as such, or are you simply saying that weqatal is not
> specifically marked a volitive and so may be used in volitive and
> nonvolitive contexts. I would agree with the latter, but the former
> gives me a problem, which may of course be solved when I am able to
> read your book.
>
> Peter Kirk

Dear Peter Kirk,

I would say that weqatal is non-volitive. As I said, in direct speech it appears in a chain; to this it corresponds a chain of wayyiqtol in historical narrative. The offline is indicated by x-yiqtol in direct speech, to which it corresponds x-qatal in historical narrative.
In direct speech weqtal indicates simple future; in narrative it indicates repetition.
More I can not say.

Peace.
Alviero Niccacci

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