Screen LibraryEgyptian-coptic linguistics in typological perspective /
This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages.The book is the first to bring together language t...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Empirical approaches to language typology [ealt];
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages.The book is the first to bring together language typology and the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion. |
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1 online resource (x, 578 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110346510 |
| Index Number: | PJ1121 |
| CLC: | H673 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Early encounters: Egyptian-Coptic studies and comparative linguistics in the century from Schlegel to Finck / The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture / A grammatical overview of Egyptian and Coptic / The Leipzig-Jerusalem Transliteration of Coptic / Conditionals in Late Egyptian / A typological look at Egyptian *d > / No case before the verb, obligatory case after the verb in Coptic / How typology can inform philology: quotative j(n) in Earlier Egyptian / The three adnominal possessive constructions in Egyptian-Coptic: Three degrees of grammaticalization / Egyptian non-selective interrogative pronominals: history and typology / Typological remodeling in Egyptian language history: salience, source and conjunction / Towards a typology of poetic rhyme / The Old and Early Middle Egyptian Stative / A rare change: the degrammaticalization of an inflectional passive marker into an impersonal subject pronoun in Earlier Egyptian / The oblique expression of the object in Ancient Egyptian / Index of authors -- Index of languages -- General index. |