Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective / / 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 w...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (578 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |