NidaMAP — Modular Aggregation of Principles for Bible Translation

Time and Tense

DRDaniel Rodriguez · Mar 13, 2015, 8:04 PM · Last modified: Sep 28, 2026, 11:37 AM
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DRDaniel RodriguezMar 15, 2015, 10:08 PM

Yes, there's a debate over TAM in BH. For a long time it was tense vs aspect/mood, then a blend, and now, in my view, the whole debate has been shown to be problematic and so folks have turned to tools in historical linguistics (like grammaticalization) to track how BH verbs changed over time in hopes of recording the functional steps across an evolutionary path (Like Alex Andrason on BH verbs http://www.jhsonline.org/Articles/article\_138.pdf). I don't know who's used Reichenbach. In my research on BH prepositions, I've made a distinction between event time and reference time, though I haven't used his speech time. For me its just a quick way to say that all kinds of time (no matter the tense) can be different.

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