Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi,

you just repeated what I said but made it out like you were saying  
something else.

James Christian

Quoting David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>:

> > Hi,
> >
> > as far as I understand Rolf's work he claims that both tense and aspect
> > are cancellable. That was the whole point of his providing refined
> > definitions of imperfect and perfect aspects.
> >
> > James Christian
>
> Hi James,
>
> Then you've misunderstood his work. Rolf argues that tense and aspect
> (traditionally defined) cannot be the semantic (ie uncancellable)
> meaning of the verbal system because each of this is cancellable.
> However, his redefined notions of perfective and imperfective aspect he
> asserts is the semantic (ie uncancellable) meaning of the verbal system.
>
> Regards,
> David Kummerow.
>
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