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  • From: Roe <d.roe AT t-online.de>
  • To: dwashbur AT nyx.net
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] waw "conseq" series -- chronological and logical
  • Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:29:21 +0100

Hi Dave,

Thanks. Please pardon the term "succession."

Can there be shifts from chronological to logical within a singular series? E.g., "he entered the city, [and] he found the court (chronological), [and] he went before the king (chronological), [and] he pleaded his case (chronological), so that the king would pardon him (logical)"?

Thanks again,
David

D.W. Roe
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany


dwashbur AT nyx.net schrieb:
On 19 Nov 2009 at 2:42, Roe wrote:

Hello,

If the answer to my question is too complex for an email response,
please refer me to helpful literature -- if it's too simple, my
apologies...

Within a single waw series of perfect followed by imperfects, is it
possible (or even frequent) that the imperfect waw relatives shift
from chronological succession to logical succession (and vice versa)? Or
must all imperfects in the series be either chronological or logical?

There is no "succession," whether chronological or logical, encoded in the so-called "waw consecutive." It's a simple statement, which is why it works well for narrative prose. Succession is actually encoded in the meanings of the statements being made. "He went before the king. He pleaded his case." There's succession here, but it doesn't come from the verb forms; it comes from the fact that it's difficult to plead one's case with the king if one has not come before him first. Logical succession follows the same pattern: it results from what is being said/done, not the verb form being used to say it.

Dave Washburn

http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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