... However, in the Phoenician Karatepe inscriptions, the infinitive absolue plays the same role as WAYYIQTOL in Hebrew. There are 16 infinitive absoluts with prefixed WAW and 5 without prefixed WAW that describe past, completed events. No one would claim that the infinitive absolute has an intrinsic past tense or perfectivity. ...
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