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  • From: "Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew grammar, (was Zech 6:8)
  • Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:33:35 -0000

Dear David,

Allow me to ask a few questions.

----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
To: "Herman Meester" <crazymulgogi AT gmail.com>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Zech 6:8



Gday Herman.

In my view, "tenses" are an OK starting point with the BH verbal system
in that in my view the verbal forms are prototypically used to make
tense distinctions. However, with a system of only a few forms in a
world in which more semantic distinctions than tense are necessary, of
course the verbal forms can be, and are, used to make aspectual
distinctions: perfective, imperfective, etc.

Do you by "tense" mean "grammaticalized location in time" or just "temporal reference"?

What does "prototypically" mean?

snip

. I don't
know of any grammar that has yet to work with a seven vowel system, even
though this view has become pretty much the consensus outside the
grammars.

What does it mean "to work with a seven vowel system"?

snip


Sincerely,
David Kummerow.



Best regards

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo




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