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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect (was Tenses - Deut 6:4)
  • Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:10:10 +0000

On 09/03/2007 23:11, Rolf Furuli wrote:
Dear Peter,

Every Thursday and Friday I am fully occupied at the University. After finishing my schedule I rceived your post, and I have to give a comment:
You are wrong, and Karl is right. The WEYIQTOL and the WAYYIQTOL cannot be distinguished in unpointed texts, since both can be apocopated. If you do not accept this, please give one single example of where they are distinct.

Rolf, unfortunately I don't have the Bible study tools to prove this, but I think you will find that the large majority of WAYYIQTOLs which can be apocopated are apocopated, whereas the majority of WEYIQTOLS which can be apocopated, except for those with jussive meaning, are NOT apocopated. But I accept that there are exceptions to this rule.

If you, or anyone, has any statistics relevant to this, I would be interested to see them.

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Peter Kirk
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