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Re: "functional/communicative approach" (was re: vav conversive)

From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
To: "Bryan Rocine" <brocine AT earthlink.net>
Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: "functional/communicative approach" (was re: vav conversive)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:18:04 -0400

>Do you think it's justified to distinguish between the
>yiqtols?
surely. i had limited my numbering (4.5) to the indicative system so as not
to include imperatives, infinitives, -ah forms, jussives, etc.

on your revised schema, i assume you would have "fientive 2" yiqtol long
(generic) include re-curring pasts ?
and you would have "attributive 5" also include re-curring pasts, yes?

>fientive: 1. wayyiqtol (perfective, mainline)
> 2. yiqtol, long (non-past and generic)
> 3. yiqtol, short (modal)
>
>attributive: 4. qatal (tells what was/is)
> 5. weqatal (modal, considering future as a
> species of modality, and mainline)
>
>imperfective 5.5. qotel

shana tova
randall buth

Re: "functional/communicative approach" (was re: vav conversive), yochanan bitan, 09/10/1999
- Re: "functional/communicative approach" (was re: vav conversive), Bryan Rocine, 09/10/1999