Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

thanks to John and Randal for responses.

John. 2 Sam 15:37.  I might be inclined to read, "had arrived when
Abshalom entered". I'm not sure this would be a clear and probative
counterexample.

Randal. If it is true that the participle is used for simultaneous
imperfective (I think Joosten made the point somewhere), then what happens
to the traditional aspectual analysis of the system? Would you not have to
consider English's verbal system, with the participle encoding
imperfective aspect, as a better analogue than Russian? (I think Lambdin
also made this point re English in his teaching grammar.) Interesting.

good luck to Bryan and his DA textbook. maybe i could do a lecture on it
for the second term of the hebrew narrative course 1304? ;-)

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