Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:02 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Randall:
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Take something like qatal 'fixed' and yiqtol 'contingent'.
>> You can run with that pretty far, but it doesn't explain why
>> Hebrew speakers didn't like qatal and wayyiqtol with maHar
>> in the same clause. Sure, 'tomorrow' is contingent, but it
>> doesn't have to be presented as contingent. "and he WILL
>> come tomorrow."  *vayyabo maHar would be predicted to
>> occur, also *hu ba maHar.
>
> One of the problems with the surviving corpus of Biblical Hebrew, is that it
> contains very little in the way of conversation. Much of it is narrative,
> which most likely skews the results compared to spoken Hebrew as it was in
> Biblical times.
>
> While it isn’t in the same clause as tomorrow, it is in the same context. 1
> Samuel 20:6, 8, 18, 19, and I could probably find more examples.

More examples of what?
subordinate clauses with qatal? They occur all over.

>>
>> Randall Buth
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>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>



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