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Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian

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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.

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Antonio Loprieno & Matthias Müller, University of Basel; Sami Uljas, University of Uppsala.

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Authors Antoni Loprieno, Antonio Loprieno, Matthia Müller, Matthias Müller, Sami Uljas
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2019
 
EAN 9783110651577
ISBN 978-3-11-065157-7
No. of pages 846
Dimensions 160 mm x 48 mm x 231 mm
Weight 1285 g
Series The Mouton Companions to Ancient Egyptian
ISSN
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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