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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect (was Tenses - Deut 6:4)
  • Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:31:51 +0000

On 08/03/2007 18:02, Isaac Fried wrote:
Peter,

Could you supply us, please, with some examples where "... some WEYIQTOLs may have been mis-pointed as WAYYIQTOL."

Isaac, this is something that we can probably never be sure of in any individual cases. But if Rolf gives examples of WAYYIQTOL in cases like "1) conative situations (attempts that were not carriedout), 2) ingressive events (the event starts and continues without reaching the end, and 3) intersection of one event by another", and there is no other clear explanation, I might suggest this as an explanation.

But there are some suspicious cases in the parallel passages in 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18, where there is a WAYYIQTOL form in 2 Samuel but a plain YIQTOL in the Psalm, or vice versa. It is at least possible that the difference between these passages was originally the semantically minor one between YIQTOL and WEYIQTOL, but at a later stage the WEYIQTOLs were reinterpreted as WAYYIQTOLs. Indeed I wonder if all of the many WAYYIQTOLs in this poem were originally WEYIQTOLs referring to general or repeated events, but were later reinterpreted as WAYYIQTOLs to make parts of this psalm sound like a narrative of a specific event. But this must be highly speculative.

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Peter Kirk
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