Biblical Hebrew Forum

[dwashbur AT nyx.net]

Joseph,
Are you familiar with Galia Hatav's book?  In it, she distinguishes between 
E-time, i.e. event
time - when something actually happened - and R-time, reference time, the 
time pointed to
by a particular spoken or written clause.  How would you say this approach is 
similar and/or
different from yours?

On 1 Feb 2010 at 14:13, Joseph Justiss wrote:

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> I propose this definition for "tense" in BH narrative texts. Tense
> is "grammaticalization of location in text, not time". In narratives
> the deictic center in the current point in the narrative. This
> "present" point of the narrative is expressed with wayyiqtol. To
> introduce an event or state prior to the current narrative Qatal is
> used to "point" back that way.
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> In conversations, or discourse, the deictic center is the current
> point in the conversation at hand. Qatal points back in the text to
> an event preceding the current conversation while weQatals point
> forward to events subsequent to the current conversation.
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