I expect Rolf Furuli will comment on this thread.
John's dissertation is excellent, though I am still surprised that he
defends the aspectual model.
I will limit my contribution to the recommendation of Mark Smith's readable
and concise book,
The Origins and Development of the Waw-Consecutive. ISBN 1555406025
I'd simply like to point toward John A. Cook's 2002 Wisconsin-Madison
dissertation, written under (my former classmate) Cynthia Miller, "The
Biblical Hebrew Verbal System: A Grammaticalization
Approach." It's out or
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