Dear David,
The first three points below deal with morphological questions and could in
principle be relevant for my quest of finding the semantic meaning of the
verb forms; the last two are pragmatic in nature and are not relevant.
Because I have analysed all the verbs, I have also analysed all the forms
with an extra NUN. In my view, the arguments regarding long and short forms
that are semantically distinctive have no real basis. They build on several
assumptions which seem to be wrong, and without the assumptions the NUNs
tell us nothing regarding Semantic meaning ( Cf. J. Hoftijzer (1985)
"Function and Use of Imperfect Forms with Nun Paragogicum in Classical
Hebrew." I have also carefully analysed the temporal adverbs/adverbials
including "yesterday" and "tomorrow". The examples of these two are too few
to have importance and therefore have not received a special treatment in
the dissertation, but a few temporal adverbs have been discussed in more
detail.
Best regards,
Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo
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