Ancient Egyptian Language - An Historical Study

Informationen zum Autor James P. Allen is the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. He is a former curator of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and president of the International Association of Egyptologists. His previous publications include Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (1989), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs (2000, 2010), The Heqanakht Papyri (2002), The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (2005) and The Debate between a Man and His Soul (2010). Klappentext The first comprehensive study of how the phonology and grammar of ancient Egyptian changed over four millennia of language history. Zusammenfassung This book! the first of its kind! examines how the phonology and grammar of the ancient Egyptian language changed over more than three thousand years of its history! from the first appearance of written documents! c.3250 BC! to the Coptic dialects of the second century AD and later. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ancient Egyptian; Part I. Phonology: 2. Coptic phonology; 3. Coptic and Egyptian; 4. Correspondents and cognates; 5. Egyptian phonology; Part II. Grammar: 6. Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives; 7. Non-verbal predicates; 8. Verbs; 9. Verbs: Egyptian I; 10. Verbs: Egyptian II; 11. Verbs: Egyptian I-II; 12. Subordination.

Product details

• Authors: James P. Allen, James P. (Brown University Allen, Allen James P.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107032460
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03246-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic, Language: history & general works, Historical & comparative linguistics, Egyptian, Writing systems, alphabets, Language: history and general works, Historical and comparative linguistics, Writing systems, alphabets, scripts, Egyptian language (Ancient Egyptian)