Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective / / ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Eitan Grossman, Tonio Sebastian Richter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Collier, Mark,; Gensler, Orin D.,; Grossman, Eitan,; Güldemann, Tom,; Haspelmath, Martin,; Idiatov, Dmitry,; Loprieno, Antonio,; Peust, Carsten,; Reintges, Chris H.,; Richter, Tonio Sebastian,; Stauder, Andréas,; Winand, Jean,
• HerausgeberIn: Grossman, Eitan,; Haspelmath, Martin,; Richter, Tonio Sebastian,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 55
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (578 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part I: Propaedeutics --; 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 --; Part II: Studies --; Conditionals in Late Egyptian --; A typological look at Egyptian *d > ʕ --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110346510; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110742961; 9783110369526; 9783110370270
• ISSN: 0933-761X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110346510
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Eitan Grossman, Tonio Sebastian Richter.

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.