Randall:
except that in these latter cases the word 'tense' does not
necessarily refer to time
?? Both in common definition and in the specialized SIL definition, I
understand "tense" to refer to time. So where does this timeless "tense"
come from?
but to generically to a verb category that
marks some kind of tense-and/or-aspect-and/or-mood.
If one likes abstract notation one could talk about qatal "TAM-1" and
yiqtol "TAM-2" as the basic Hebrew verb system, with an additional
sequential vayyiqtol "seqTAM-1" and sequential ve-qatal "seqTAM-2".
These four nodes or categories and used in Hebrew to refer to the
whole referential world, not necessarily unambiguously.
I'm sorry, but I'm completely lost here.
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