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  • From: lehmann AT mail.uni-mainz.de
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>, <nbtp AT sil.org>
  • Cc: <jdiehl AT mail.uni-mainz.de>
  • Subject: Re:Imperative followed by cohortative
  • Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 01:34:28 -0500


> 1) When there is an imperative followed by cohortatives the basic meaning of
> the cohortatives is one of intention.
> 2) H.W.Wolf says; "After an inperative, a consecutive clause in the first
> person is formed with a cohortative." and also "Such consecutive clauses may
> have the sense of a result as well as the sense of an intention".
>
> The main texts for imperative followed by cohortatives are Gen 12:1 and 1
> Sam 26:11.
>
> Can you elaborate on these? Any ideas, however provocative ;-), will be
> welcome.

You best mail Mr. Diehl from Mainz University, who is working on the syntax
and
syntactical values
of Hebrew imperatives:
jdiehl AT mail.uni-mainz.de


r.g.l.

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Reinhard G. Lehmann
Lecturer for Classical Hebrew and Old Aramaic
Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
D - 55099 Mainz
tel: +49 - 6131 - 39 3284
mailto:lehmann AT mail.uni-mainz.de
look at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~lehmann/link.html
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