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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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