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>(By the way, you've wholly misrepresented my again -- I said nothing
>about the relationship between event time and the deictic centre
>correlating with perfective aspect! Where on earth did that come from?)
>
>Thanks,
>David Kummerow.
>
>>
>> DK has demonstrated that he still does not understand the basic
>> parameters used by Reichenbach, Comrie, Broman Olsen and myself. Tense
>> is the relationship between reference time and the deictic center, not
>> between event time and the deictic center. This is so because event time
>> can start before the deictic center and continue after it. But OK, I
>> agree that the whole event time in Gen 12:1 is prior to the deictic
>> center. This shows that the reference is past, but not that the
>> WAYYIQTOL is past tense. And there is no way to look inside the verb and
>> know whether the whole or a part is made visible.
> >
>>
As seen by my words quoted above, I said that TENSE is not the
relationship between event time and the deictic center. I did not
speak of aspect.
Best regards,
Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo
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