Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

John Ronning wrote:

>As a footnote to our recent discussion on this list of wayyiqtol and
>sequence, it
>looks to me like somewhere along the line Galia's statistics got misquoted
>to the
>effect that 97% of wayyiqtols are sequential:
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>Galia Hatav wrote:
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>> . . .
>>
>> There are at least two cases where wayyiqtol
>> clauses do not build a new R-time. One: in formulas such as "waydabber
>> wayyomer" and hendiadies such as
>> "wayyimshexu wayya'alu". The other case is with paraphrases: The narrator
>> starts a story, stops and starts it again to provide some detail he did not
>> mention the first time. There are also counterexamples which I cannot
>> lexplain. (My statistical counting shows 3% of such cases.)
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>I.e., a great many of the 97% of "explained" wayyiqtols are not
>sequential, if I
>understand the above correctly?
>
>John Ronning

        Oh my God! NO!!! My statistical findings show that 94% of wayyiqtol
clauses ARE sequential. 6% are not, 3% of which I explain as formulas or
parapharases and 3% I cannot explain.
        Galia


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