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  • From: Donald Vance <donaldrvance AT mac.com>
  • To: Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Emerging consensus (and paedogogy) on "Waw Consecutive" PSS
  • Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:06:36 -0500

To be fair, I don't think I've heard "suffix tense." Rather I have heard
suffix conjugation and prefix conjugatio, both of which are neutral as to
function.

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Donald R. Vance
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On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com> wrote:

>> So what you are
>> saying in this exchange is that “tense” ≠ “tense” because you want it to
>> mean “form”. In the English language, that’s nonsense.
>
> Karl, I did not invent the terms, don't want them to do anything,
> and don't like them myself.
> But 'suffix tense' and 'suffixing tense' have been used in the BH
> secondary literature.
> So when talking to the widest spread of people,
> I include such terms.
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