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  • From: "Matthew Anstey" <manstey AT portal.ca>
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Perfectivity of wayyiqtols
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:46:02 -0700


Gday,

In searching for answers for my own question, I have found a very good
example of interrupted wayyiqtols (with no verbs of motion). 2 Sam 11.17
has:

wayyillachamu 'et-yo'ab wayyapol min-ha`am ...
and they battled Joab and they fell some of the
people
wayamot gam 'uriyyah.
and he died also Uriah.

It is quite impossible that there was a battle THEN some of the army died
THEN Uriah died! Do you think these wayyiqtols are "functionally"
imperfective? If not, what are they aspectually? and If so, how would the
reader know not to link these sequentially, or to see them as perfective.
Why isn't the Hebrew, wayhi behillachem wayyapol ...?

With regards,
Matthew Anstey


>Genesis 37.28 vayya`avru ... vayyimshxu
>and they passed by...and they pulled up (before 'passing by' was complete!)
>ruth 1.6 vattashov no`omi
>and Naomi returned (but she didn't really return until verse 19)
>
>these are fairly unambgious and helpful examples for the relative nature of
>hebrew aspect as long as one first admits that vayyiqtol is perfective.
>
>braxot
>randall buth
>





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