Dear David:
On 3/14/07, David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo at hotmail.com
<http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew>> wrote:
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/>/ I raised the point that the same distributional situation applies in BH:
/>/ 'ethmol and 'emesh are restricted to qatal and machar is restricted to
/>/ yiqtol. My take is that these are tense restrictions: 'ethmol and 'emesh
/>/ like English "yesterday" select the past tense while machar like English
/>/ "tomorrow" selects the future tense. But given that you reject a
/>/ tense-prominent analysis, what is your explanation of this
/>/ distributional verbal restriction with temporal adverbs?
/>/
/>/ Regards,
/>/ David Kummerow.
/>/
/'Ethmol and 'emesh together are used only about 13 times: isn't that
sample small enough that they are used only with qatal (or wayyiqtol)
merely a function of chance?
Machar is used more often (about 52 times), usually referring to the
future. However, there are times, like Exodus 17:9, Joshua 11:6 and
possibly other times where it is used with a qatal.
Yours, Karl W. Randolph.
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