Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 15:53, you wrote:
> On 29/11/2005 16:12, Dave Washburn wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >> I don't claim that this is necessarily
> >>true, but I have seen no clear evidence that WAYYIQTOL is secondary,
> >>rather than primary and reflecting the original dominant Hebrew word
> >> order.
> >
> >Can you give a reference or two, something published that sets forth this
> >view?  I'll try to do the same for the description I gave.
>
> Not actually to answer the question - but I just looked at
> Heimerdinger's treatment of this issue ("Topic, Focus and Foreground in
> Ancient Hebrew Narrative", p.25), and he notes that Muraoka excludes
> WAYYIQTOL clauses from his investigation but still consludes that V-S is
> the basic word order.

Is that the Jouon-Muraoka grammar, his book on emphatic constructions, or 
some 
other?

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