In the Aramaic of Daniel, the imperfect expresses past situations 29 times. Scholars have long wrestled with these past time uses, and although important contributions have been made along the way, one of the most salient semantic issues that arise with these uses—the semantic intersection of imperfective aspect and telicity—has been overlooked. This study addresses this issue directly by providing a linguistic analysis of the past imperfective uses of the imperfect that describes their semantics in light of situation aspect and (un)boundedness. This study also describes the past modal use of the imperfect, and offers a linguistic explanation for how the imperfect acquired such a use. Ultimately, this study provides a linguistic analysis of the past time uses of the imperfect that fosters more artful and nuanced readings of the text in light of its semantic and functional sophistication.

在但以理的阿拉姆语中，不完美表达了过去的情况 29 次。长期以来，学者们一直在努力解决这些过去的时间使用问题，尽管在此过程中做出了重要贡献，但这些使用中出现的最突出的语义问题之一——不完美方面和远期性的语义交集——却被忽视了。本研究通过对过去不完美的过去不完美使用进行语言分析来直接解决这个问题，该分析根据情境方面和（无）有界性描述了它们的语义。本研究还描述了不完善者过去的模态用法，并为不完善者如何获得这种用法提供了语言解释。最终，