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  • From: "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: lationship between b-nouns and clauses
  • Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:10:16 +0100


Moon,

Thanks for your post. I'm at loss to know how construct
and absolute states are applicable to the relationship
between time locative phrases bywm, br'$yt, etc and the
clause which follows. (You'll note that not all bywm
plus clause follow yhy -- or wyhy --: see Lev 7:35,6
and Deut 4:15.)


> the problem is not whether BYOM can be qualified by more
> than one clauses. It is whether two clauses qualifying BYOM are
> COORDINATED
> clauses or SEQUENTIAL clauses. For all the BYOM clause debate between
> you
> and Peter, I tend to agree with Peter, because for now I adopted
> the grammar of Hatav and Niccacci. They do not analyize WAYYIQTOL into
> W + IQTOL, but consider WAYYIQTOL as a "tense" on its own. They consider
> WAYYIQTOL basically sequential in the sense that it introduces a new
> event
> in the narrative relative to the current reference time.
>
>(5) Now, I would like to put a conjecture as follows:
> WAYYIQTOL cannot be used when there is no reference time to refer to.
> [Peter seems to accept it, while you reject it.] If this hypothesis
> is right, in sentences of the form WAYHI + BYOM + QATAL/QOTEL/Inf +
> WAYYIQTOL, QATAL/QOTEL/Inf and WAYYIQTOL cannot be coordinated and
> thus cannot both qualify YOM,
> because QATAL/QOTEL/Inf is used to introduce the reference time,
> and WAYYIQTOL introduces a new event relative to the introduced
> reference time.

I always have difficulty imagining things in the hypothetical without
examples. How do you find the following examples?

Isa 30:26b
bywm xb$ yhwh 't-$br `mw
wmxc mktw yrp'

Obadiah 11
bywm `md:k mngd
bywm $bwt zrym xyl:w
wnkrym b'w $`r:w
w`l-yrw$lm ydw gwrl
gm-'th k'xd mhm


Ian






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