Then back to grammaticalisation, which means that the uses of one part
of speach become fewer and fewer, until it has a single use. Examples
are the use of QATAL as past tense and YIQTOL as a future tense in Mishnaic
Hebrew.
Regarding WAYYIQTOL we can make this prediction: If WAYYIQTOL
were in the process of grammaticalisation from the first book was written
until a certain time or until the last book was written, we expect to find the
pattern that WAYYIQTOL has fewer and fewer functions/meanings until it
has only a few, or even one funtion/meaning.
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