On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dr. Frank Matheus <post AT matheus.de> wrote:
Dear list,
if we perceived a text comprising only of one word, e.g. וַיֹּ֙אמֶר, to which time sphere would we sort the proposition, and why would we do so?
We would not know because this is not a grammaticalization for any time sphere. It could be present, it could be future, without further context, there’s no way to tell.