On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 18:43:05 +0200 "Rolf" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Kimmo, > > It is good to hear from you again. > > If tense is defined as "grammaticalized location in time (Comrie)," I have > problems with your statement: "traditional past tense (as a grammatical > category) does not correspond exactly to the semantic past tense." If we > accepts Comrie's definition, "semantic past tense" should have have read > "semantic past reference. We cannot have two different kinds of "past tense." > This is not nitpicking, but highly significant in a discussion of tense and > aspect. To me the difference seems purely terminological. I am fine with your "semantic past reference". My point is that we should not expect 100 % correspondence between past reference and a past tense grammatical form even in tense languages. > For example, are the WAYYIQTOLs in narrative YIQTOLs with past reference, or > do they have an intrinsic past tense, or do they represent the perfective > aspect? My point is that we need not expect all of them to have past reference or all of them to describe a perfective situation to say that TMA is relevant for the analysis of the meaning of the form. Kimmo Huovila _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
