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Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian

Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian

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Series: Mouton Companions to Ancient Egyptian, Book 2

LinguisticsOther African Languages

Publisher Price: $62.99

ISBN10: 3110651572
ISBN13: 9783110651577
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jul 8 2019
Pages: 859
Weight: 2.86
Height: 1.91 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Egyptian language, with its written documentation spreading from the Early Bronze Age (Ancient Egyptian) to Christian times (Coptic), has rarely been the object of typological studies, grammatical analysis mainly serving philological purposes.

This volume offers now a detailed analysis and a diachronic discussion of the non-verbal patterns of the Egyptian language, from the Pyramid Texts (Earlier Egyptian) to Coptic (Later Egyptian), based on an extensive use of data, especially for later phases. By providing a narrative contextualisation and a linguistic glossing of all examples, it addresses the needs not only of students of Egyptian and Coptic, but also of a linguistic readership. After an introduction into the basic typological features of Egyptian, the main book chapters address morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the three non-verbal sentence types documented throughout the history of this language: the adverbial sentence, the nominal sentence and the adjectival sentence. These patterns also appear in a variety of clausal environments and can be embedded in verbal constructions.

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