Rolf, I do not attempt to prove that ALL cases of WAYYIQTOL necessarily advance the R-time, because according to my arguments yesterday, which you chose not to answer, a distinction can be semantically significant without applying in 100% of cases. I note this partly by reference to a similar Azerbaijani construction which is usually but not always sequential, and in certain contexts contrasts semantically with an alternative non-sequential construction. Nevertheless, I consider that you have been too hasty in listing the following WAYYIQTOLs as non-sequential.
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Dear Dave,
Below are twenty-five passages of a list of 330 where there is no new R-time when one WAYYIQTOL follows another, or when two or three follow one WAYYIQTOL. Numbers 3), 5), 8), 9), 10), 11), 15), 18), and 24) have two WAYYIQTOLs; numbers 1), 2), 4), 6), 7), 12), 14), 16), 17), 22), and 25) have three WAYYIQTOLs, and numbers 20) and 21) have four WAYYIQTOLs.
I have given different kinds of examples from my material. Some of the examples are common expressions, such as 1), others are collocations, such as 4), others express the same thing in different words, such as 8), and others express actions that are naturally associated with one another, such as 15). The twenty-five examples (and the 305 others) represent a test that will answer the question: "Is a new R-time a *semantic* part of the WAYYIQTOL form, or is the fact that the WAYYIQTOL so often represents a new R-time only conversational pragmatic implicature?" The answer should be obvious!
1) 1Sam. 1:17 Eli answered and said
2) 2 Ki 18:28 And he called out in a loud voice and spoke and said
3) 1Chr. 29:22 And they ate and drank before YHWH
4) Ruth 3:7 And Boaz ate and drank and was in good spirits
5) 2 Sam 3:32 And the king raised his voice and wept
6) 2 Sam 1:12 And they vailed, and wept and fasted until the evening
7) Ex 34:8 Šw And Moses hurried and bowed down to the earth and prostrated himself
8) Numb 22:31 And YHWH uncovered the eyes of Balaam, and he saw..
9) 1Sam. 4:2 Israel was defeated before the Philistines, who went striking down..
10) 1 Sam 5:6 He brought devastation upon them and afflicted them with tumors
11) 1Sam. 17:50 he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
12) 1Sam. 14:48 He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel
13) 1 Sam 6:6 did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?
14) 1 Sam 7:10 YHWH thundered with loud noise against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were defeated before the Israelites.
15) 1Sam. 8:8 they left me and served other gods
16) 1Sam. 19:12 and he fled and escaped
17) 1Sam. 15:12 He then turned around, went across, and descended to Gilgal
18) 1 Sam 28:8 Saul disguised himself and clothed himself
19) 2 Sam 11.18 Joab sent Š and told
20) 2 Sam 22:8 The earth trembled and quaked
21) 1 Kings 20:33 The men took it as an omen and were quick to pick up his word
22) 2 Ki 7:7 fled and abandoned their tentsŠ the fled for their lives
23) 2Chr. 1:17 They brought up and exported from Egypt
24) 1Sam. 7:2 It was a long time, twenty years in all, that the ark remained at K. J.
25) 1Sam. 8:3 They turned after unjust profit, accepted bribes and perverted justice
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