Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective

This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic ('typological') perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages.
Uniquely, the contributions are written by both typologists and experts of Egyptian-Coptic and typologists. The former provide case studies dealing with particular aspects of the various phases of the Egyptian-Coptic language (e.g., COLLIER on conditional constructions), while the latter situate Egyptian-Coptic data in cross-linguistic perspective (e.g., those by GUELDEMANN and GENSLER). The volume also includes an introductory section that includes an overview of the Egyptian-Coptic language (HASPELMATH), a sketch of its sociohistorical setting (GROSSMAN & RICHTER), its relationship with language typology (RICHTER), and the way in which Egyptian-Coptic data should be presented to nonspecialists, focusing on transliteration and glossing (GROSSMAN & HASPELMATH).
This is the first book to bring together language typology and the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion.

About the author

M. Haspelmath, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; E. Grossman, University of Jerusalem; T.S. Richter, University of Leipzig.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eitan Grossman (Editor), Marti Haspelmath (Editor), Martin Haspelmath (Editor), Tonio Sebastian Richter (Editor), Tonio Sebastian Richter (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2017
• EAN: 9783110555134
• ISBN: 978-3-11-055513-4
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 32 mm x 231 mm
• Weight: 873 g
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology; Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; Empirical Approaches to Language Typology; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures