From: "R. Hoberman" <rdhoberman AT ccmail.sunysb.edu>
To: Biblical Hebrew digest <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: RDHOBERMAN AT ccmail.sunysb.edu
Subject: Modality of yiqtol
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:33:32 -0400 (EDT)
One interesting thing in relation to Hatav's idea that BH yiqtol is modal
is that in Mishnaic Hebrew yiqtol is certainly modal, as I think M.H.
Segal pointed out. I seem to remember that this was discussed by Rundgren.
Hatav's approach could lead to an interesting reexamination of the
diachronic shifts in the verbal system on the way to post-BiblicaI Hebrew.