Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

by location of time i believe rolf means absolute past, present, future. as to comrie, i am not
sure: maybe just "grammaticalization of temporal information". i did not have direct access to his books on tense and aspect. i too understand location of time in this spirit.

the next question is: how to define the relevant temporal information grammaticalized in BH; this is what i called "type of time"

recall that grammaticalization is usually defined as a process that shifts semantic values from the lexical to the grammatical, e.g. english will shift from "verb: want" to "pre-verbal auxiliary word indicating future tense". actually, this definition is also not precise: grammaticalization can also change one grammatical value in another. e.g.
in the latin languages the passive became participle.

as to "quality of time", i am not sure what you are speaking about.

nir cohen

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 01:39:34 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote
> Not clear to me how "location of time" is supposed to be grammaticalized also for "type of time" (and why not also quality of time). 
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> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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> On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:53 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

> if tense is the grammaticalized location of time, then the question is, what
> type of time is being grammaticalized in BH

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