Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective /

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

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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
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (578 p.)
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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

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