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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect (was Tenses - Deut 6:4)
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:24:17 +0000

On 3/8/07, Peter Kirk wrote:
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.

Perhaps another example is Ez 18:28, where the text reads wyr)h wy$wb
and probably suggests a long verb (imperfect) for both yr)h and y$wb, but
the vocalization analyzes the first with a gemination in the y (reminiscent of
short verb / preterite) and the second with a qamats under the shin (again,
reminiscent of a short verb / preterite -- the long verb form would have a
long u: after the shin). Thus, the consonantal text departs from the previous
past tense but the vocalization continues this past tense.

Yitzhak Sapir




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