Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Doug wrote:
> 2) On to something a bit new.  You say below: " Do 
> verbs in ):A$ER clauses act as if they were sentence-initial verbs?"

I accidentally deleted this question of Peter's, so I'll try to reply to it 
now.  I don't think they do; if the did, then we should expect an 
occasional wayyiqtol or weqatal after the ):A$ER depending on 
what the subordinate clause says.  As far as I know, we never see 
this.  Also, the phenomena I asked about originally with 
prepositions argues strongly for the idea that ):A$ER (with or 
without the preposition) is a moved constituent, and thus it is 
unlikely that it would be moved clear out of the subordinate clause 
and into the main clause without any real syntactic connection 
between the two (this is how I understand Peter's scenario using 
the "this X:" gloss).

Dave Washburn
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