Of course, not. As I described, and what is a standard method of scientific proof, a hypothesis can be accepted if no contradicting facts can be brought against it, and if the hypothesis is simler than others.
This is not proper scientific method. A hypothesis like this which cannot in principle be falsified cannot be established by the absence of falsification.
I dispute that such deictic shifts exist in Hebrew, at least unless you can provide evidence of them. I accept that they exist in Russian in the case of indirect speech and similar.
I can settle for calling that idiomatic usage, and then we can discuss whether that idiomatic usage originally arose from deictic center shifts.
It did not. It arose from the past tense of the verb "will" = "want".
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