Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Galia Hatav <ghatav AT aall.ufl.edu>]

Dear Peter,

You wrote:
>
>Have other European languages been analysed in this way? Is French
>special in this respect? You seem to say that the English simple past
>is different, though I am not yet convinced if we ignore stative
>verbs. But how about the Greek aorist and the Russian past perfective,
>to name two examples I happen to know reasonably well?
>
>Peter

        Unfortunately I do not know Greek or Russian. However, consulting
grammars for Slavic languages, Russian in particular, e.g., Forsyth 1970,
it seems that the perfective in Russian works like wayyiqtol in BH. But I
did not do research on Russian myself, so I can't say more than this about
it.
Galia


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>Subject: Re: About Galia's Theory of Wayyqtol
>Author:  ghatav AT aall.ufl.edu at internet
>Date:    01/03/1999 08:09
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><snip>
>     Re other languages. Actually I started looking into the verb forms
>with respect to DRT because Hans Kamp in collaboration with C. Rohrer
>(1983) show
>that the passe simple in French, as opposed to the Imparait, works this way.
>
>Galia
>
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