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I find this systematic way of getting to the root of the matter (no pun 
intended) to
be extremely informative, and look forward to reading your completed list.

Solomon Landers
Memra Institute for Biblical Research
http://www.memrain.org

Rolf Furuli wrote:

> <Dear list-members,
>
> Today I have been working with the YIQTOLs and WEYIQTOLs of Joshua, and I
> found three verses illustrating the conjunctive force of WAW. In my view
> the WAWs have exactly the same function both when prefixed to the
> WEYIQTOLs, the WAYYIQTOLs, and to the IMPERATIVEs.
>
> The first WEYIQTOL (§LX) of v 4 illustrates the importance of WAW. This is
> the first WEYIQTOL in a chain, and as a conjunction it is therefore
> superfluous (there are some examples of WAWs where the conjunctive force
> even is used first in a clause; the meaning in such cases is "so"). It may
> be used to signal that the verb is not modal. I see only two different
> "events" expressed by the five WEYIQTOLs,i.e. two different RTs (reference
> time): (1) "send","rise","go", and "write" ("Map"), and (2) "enter". It is
> impossible to say that first Joshua would send them, then they should rise,
> then they should go (throughout the land),and then they should map it, and
> then they should enter the place where Joshua was.><snip>
>