... This means that the start of a supposed grammaticalisation process cannot
be found in the Tanakh.
... for how can we know that a WAYYIQTOL is a partly grammaticalised past
tense, or a fully grammaticalised past tense, or a perfective or an
imperfective aspect just by looking at one particular form in its context? ...
... Clearly, the prediction above has not been fulfilled.But that proves nothing, except that the evidence is limited and perhaps that the model is unhelpful.
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