Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

re semantics of wayyiqtol/weqatal.

i forgot the best part!!  since i've reduced conjunction, negation, 
mood, tense, &c, all to one operator with different scopes, i can explain 
why negation with consecutives reverses the verbal forms (seemingly 
again!): since impf vs perfect is a matter of counting "not"s, one more 
"not" negating the proposition (ie., negative particle lo) will have this 
effect automatically. sweet.

cheers
V -- 
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