Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: WAW the conjunction
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 15:09:33 -0800
I find this systematic way of getting to the root of the matter (no pun
intended) to
be extremely informative, and look forward to reading your completed list.
> <Dear list-members,
>
> Today I have been working with the YIQTOLs and WEYIQTOLs of Joshua, and I
> found three verses illustrating the conjunctive force of WAW. In my view
> the WAWs have exactly the same function both when prefixed to the
> WEYIQTOLs, the WAYYIQTOLs, and to the IMPERATIVEs.
>
> The first WEYIQTOL (§LX) of v 4 illustrates the importance of WAW. This is
> the first WEYIQTOL in a chain, and as a conjunction it is therefore
> superfluous (there are some examples of WAWs where the conjunctive force
> even is used first in a clause; the meaning in such cases is "so"). It may
> be used to signal that the verb is not modal. I see only two different
> "events" expressed by the five WEYIQTOLs,i.e. two different RTs (reference
> time): (1) "send","rise","go", and "write" ("Map"), and (2) "enter". It is
> impossible to say that first Joshua would send them, then they should rise,
> then they should go (throughout the land),and then they should map it, and
> then they should enter the place where Joshua was.><snip>
>