...Is what you really mean that he is using a different theoretical model from yours? You are welcome to your own model, but you really shouldn't use this kind of language to shoot down people who are working with a different model, which may be just as valid and productive as your own, or more so.
Rainey's conclusions are generally reliable, but he fails to point to criteria that can be used to find the semantic meaning of the verbs. ... he himself uses reasonings that are still thinner; he confuses past reference and past tense and Aktionsart and aspect. ...
... Therefore, Rainey's argument that the adverbial shows that the form yaqtulu indicates continuous action is simply not valid. The lesson we learn from this is that just as an Akkadian iprus form can portray an iterative event as much as an iparras form, so the Hebrew wayyiqtol form can portray an iterative event just as can a yiqtol form. ...
... I argue, and this cannot be countered, that in the unpointed text only two conjugations can be seen, the prefix-forms and the suffix-forms. ...
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