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  • From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect (was Tenses - Deut 6:4)
  • Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:46:17 -0700

Dear David:

On 3/14/07, David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com> wrote:
...

I raised the point that the same distributional situation applies in BH:
'ethmol and 'emesh are restricted to qatal and machar is restricted to
yiqtol. My take is that these are tense restrictions: 'ethmol and 'emesh
like English "yesterday" select the past tense while machar like English
"tomorrow" selects the future tense. But given that you reject a
tense-prominent analysis, what is your explanation of this
distributional verbal restriction with temporal adverbs?

Regards,
David Kummerow.

'Ethmol and 'emesh together are used only about 13 times: isn't that
sample small enough that they are used only with qatal (or wayyiqtol)
merely a function of chance?

Machar is used more often (about 52 times), usually referring to the
future. However, there are times, like Exodus 17:9, Joshua 11:6 and
possibly other times where it is used with a qatal.

Yours, Karl W. Randolph.




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