I think Dave got acurate intuition, that <wayyiqtol> is independent, as
opposed to <qatal>. However, I think that this independence is not
syntactic (see the first clause in Gen 1:1 and clauses in direct speech).
Dave, I thought you "bought" the idea that this independence has to do with
Reference-Time-Building, where <wayyiqtol> builds its own R-time but
<qatal> does not. Let us call <wayyiqtol> and <wqatal> R-builders, as
opposed to <qatal> and <yiqtol> (and <qotel>, too). This will get rid of
the notion of "sequentiality," which I consider to be a derived property
from R-building.
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