Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Galia Hatav <ghatav AT aall.ufl.edu>]

Dear Rolf,

How many of those WAYYIQTOLS woth cohortative are from the books attributed
to the First Temple?  This is a crucial detail since one of the arguments
that the aspect system in the Second Temple had collapsed is that WAYYIQTOL
may come with cohortative.

Thanks,

Galia

>Dear Henry,
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>In my post of Feb. 20th. I made some comments regarding WAYYIQTOL with
>cohortative. My data search did not give wholly correct numbers, but now I
>have looked at each example and give the following revised numbers:
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>WAYYIQTOLs with cohortative ending in all books: 661
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>The following verbs cannot take cohortative,
>       lamed he verbs: 44
>       verbs with suffixes: 52
>The following must also be excluded from possible examples,
>       apocopated forms of WAYYIQTOLs 1 person: 68
>       WEYIQTOLs wrongly counted as WAYYIQTOLs:76
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>This means that (44+52+68+76) = 240 examples must be substracted from the
>number of 661. The result is that 421 of the WAYYIQTOLs of the Tanach *can*
>take cohortative. I found that 82 of these had cohortative ending, and this
>means that 19.5% of the possible examples of WAYYIQTOL have cohortative
>ending.
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>Of the 68 apocopated forms, 54 were lamed he verbs, and this means that 55%
>of the lamed he verbs that *can* be apocopated are apocopated.
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>Regards
>Rolf
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>Rolf Furuli
>University of Oslo
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