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I propose this definition for "tense" in BH narrative texts. Tense is "grammaticalization of location in text, not time". In narratives the deictic center in the current point in the narrative. This "present" point of the narrative is expressed with wayyiqtol. To introduce an event or state prior to the current narrative Qatal is used to "point" back that way.
In conversations, or discourse, the deictic center is the current point in the conversation at hand. Qatal points back in the text to an event preceding the current conversation while weQatals point forward to events subsequent to the current conversation.
Joseph Justiss
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