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["Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>]

Dear List,

See http://www.gial.edu/GIALens/vol1-2/Bowling-Paper.pdf for the article "The
General/Gnomic Usage of Hebrew Morphologies in the Book of Isaiah" by Andrew
Bowling

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: "Chavoux Luyt" <chavoux AT gmail.com>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Article by Andrew Bowling


> Chavoux:
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Chavoux Luyt <chavoux AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Shalom the list!
> >
> > Has anybody read the article "The General/Gnomic Usage of  Hebrew
> > Morphologies in the Book of Isaiah."
> > by ANDREW BOWLING,  Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistic in
> > GIALens.  (2007)?
> >
>
> Is it available online?
>
> >
> > I am not sure if I understand him correctly, but he seems to imply
> > that the qtl and yqtl forms of the Hebrew verb has less of a time
> > meaning than I always understood. Is it possible that they could
> > indicate relative time (i.e. yqtl happens after qtl, but not
> > necessarily in the future when seen from the present)? I must confess
> > that I have not read all the examples in the Hebrew yet, so I don't
> > know whether he considers the waw consecutive.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Regards
> > Chavoux Luyt
> >
> > There was a discussion on this a short while ago.
>
> Diethelm Michel and I both came to conclusions that the Qatal and Yiqtol do
> not encode for time at all. Rather they both refer to other considerations.
> (Each of us came to our conclusions independently of the other.)
>
> Many believe that the Qatal and Yiqtol refer to aspect, in particular the
> perfective and imperfective aspects.
>
> There are still people who teach that they refer to tense, in the same
> manner as modern Hebrew and Indo-European languages.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
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