I hesitate to jump into this mess, but the comment from Ruth ("You would do better to listen to Rolf") prompted me to make a couple of notes.
I don't have a linguistics degree, but I've read enough linguistic literature for my PhD thesis (on Hebrew tense, aspect, and modality) to know that much of the discussion on this list would appear quite silly to a linguist. Rolf's view is highly idiosyncratic and does not interact with recent standard linguistic literature.
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