Biblical Hebrew Forum

[decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)]

having fun with narrative course, NMC 1304. among topics today was the
encoding of simultaneity, the juxtaposition of clauses to indicate
temporal relations.

assumption. overlapping, one event happens (perfective/foreground) while
another event under way (imperfective/background). how does hebrew do
this?

representative ex. 1K 14:17  hi va'ah bsaf habbayit, wena`ar met

in all cases, we seem to find (1) verbless clause (2) haya clause=1 (3)
participle w/wout haya.

question: is this in fact the correct generalization? if so..., what does
that say about hebrew "grammatical aspect"?

what do you think...? could you find a real yiqtol in an imperfective
context here? i'm guessing not, based on my anecdotal sense...  looks like
a good MA topic. ;-)

sholom,
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