Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian (Hardcover, Digital original)

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. This book provides an ideal introduction into the study of Egyptian historical grammar and an indispensable companion for philological reading.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	The Mouton Companions to Ancient Egyptian
Release date:	October 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Antonio Loprieno • Matthias Muller • Sami Uljas
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	859
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-040611-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	3-11-040611-X
Barcode:	9783110406115

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