Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>]

Dear Rolf,

You wrote:
 
> 6) THE MAIN CONCLUSION:  YIQTOL, WAYYIQTOL, and WEYIQTOL 
> represent the 
> imperfective aspect (defined slightly differently compared with its 
> English counterpart), and QATAL and WEQATAL represent the 
> perfective aspect.

I tried to find your (slightly different) definition of the imperfective
aspect in the most recent work of yours I have, your paper entitled, "The
verbal system of classical Hebrew, an attempt to distinguish between
pragmatic and semantic factors," dated 6.14.04. If I missed it somehow,
could you point me to the page reference? If it is not defined in the paper,
could you offer your definition here?

Thanks,
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew Poetry)
Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University: Qumran Hebrew Tense, Aspect and Mood.
pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca
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