Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>]

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?

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. 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"?

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> Sincerely,
> David Kummerow.

Best regards

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo