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Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb: The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew, Vol. 7 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, John Cook interacts with a range of approaches to perennial questions on the Hebrew verb. Some of his answers may appear traditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification of the qatal-yiqtol opposition, but his approach is distinguished by its modern linguistic foundation. One distinguishing sign is his employment of the phrase “aspect prominent” to describe the...

the qatal conjugation was restricted to past temporal reference even with stative roots (Segal 1927: 150; Kutscher 1982: 131).31 Another typological argument tied to the dynamic-stative analysis not only serves to confirm the dynamic-stative analysis of the theme-vowel alternation presented here but contributes to the analysis of the verbal conjugations (particularly, qatal and wayyiqtol; see §§3.2.3.1 and 3.4.1). The argument is based on the observable pattern of interaction between stative verbs
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