...OK, Rolf, let's consider a typical series of WAYYIQTOL sentences forming a sequence in a narrative context. The individual events are typically passed over rather quickly with no interest in their internal structure. By your definitions, WAYYIQTOL is supposed to be imperfective. But how does this typical situation correspond with "a close-up view of a small section of the event where the progressive action is made visible"? It seems to me to correspond rather with the opposite, "a view, as if from some distance, of a great part of, or of the whole the event, where the progressive action is not made visible", i.e. perfective.
I define the similarities between English and Hebrew aspects this way:
"The imperfective aspect is a close-up view of a small section of the event where the progressive action is made visible. The perfective aspect is a view, as if from some distance, of a great part of, or of the whole the event, where the progressive action is not made visible."
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... This means, for example, that when the end is made visible for the audience in each action expressed by WAYYIQTOLs in consecution, other factors than the aspect are used to make these ends visible.
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