Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Vince,
> was thinking of various discussions on this list in light of my sept
> paper for a linguistics conference: "the syntax and semantics of
> sequence: zulu, swahili and biblical hebrew".  i will be arguing for a
> modal analysis crosslinguistically, following up on Palmer's cambridge
> textbook on mood. the idea is that morphologically, sequential forms
> pattern with modality; and syntactically, sequential forms pattern
> with modality; and that palmer's analysis appears to be the right sort
> of approach, though the precise formal-semantic analysis of sequence
> as a combination of mood and tense remains a research project.

This is a nice "teaser"; can you expand on it?  Bib info on Palmer 
would be nice, too...

Dave Washburn
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