and O’Connor explain, syntactic modifiers may be responsible for making the qatal refer to punctiliar (.), frequentative (.…), durative (——), inceptive (|→), or culminative (→|) situations. §30.2.3 (483): Note Waltke and O’Connor’s discussion of the fientive vs. stative and the static vs. dynamic. These concepts affect the understanding of a distinction between dynamic and static statives—see comments on §22.2.1 (363–64). §30.3a (483): Waltke and O’Connor distinguish between completed and complete
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