Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>]

> (By the way, you've wholly misrepresented my again -- I said nothing
> about the relationship between event time and the deictic centre
> correlating with perfective aspect! Where on earth did that come from?)
>
> Thanks,
> David Kummerow.
>
> >  DK has demonstrated that he still does not understand the basic
> >  parameters used by Reichenbach, Comrie, Broman Olsen and myself. Tense
> >  is the relationship between reference time and the deictic center, not
> >  between event time and the deictic center. This is so because event time
> >  can start before the deictic center and continue after it. But OK, I
> >  agree that the whole event time in Gen 12:1 is prior to the deictic
> >  center. This shows that the reference is past, but not that the
> >  WAYYIQTOL is past tense. And there is no way to look inside the verb and
> >  know whether the whole or a part is made visible.
>  >
> >

As seen by my words quoted above, I said that TENSE   is not the 
relationship between event time and the deictic center. I did not 
speak of aspect.


Best regards,

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo