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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Vadim Cherny <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] tenses - Ex 3:14
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:09:36 +0100

On 16/09/2005 17:47, Vadim Cherny wrote:

I think you two need to use some terminology which distinguishes
different verb forms or paradigms from the language of "tense".


I offered my definition recently:

Tense describes the reference time from narrator's point of view.

That is to say, future tense must refer to the future from the narrator's
deictic centre, and past tense likewise.

Now, narrator's deictic centre might be shifted, and so future tense
sometimes refers to the past events - from the point of view of the reader
or of narrator's contemporaries. This is still future tense.

Does that seem reasonable?


Reasonable, but this definition of "future tense" does not apply to the YIQTOL form in biblical Hebrew. This has already been demonstrated in numerous examples.

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Peter Kirk
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