Deixis in Egyptian : : The Close, the Distant, and the Known.

• Superior document: Harvard Egyptological Studies
• Author: N. Kupreyev, Maxim.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)

"In this volume, Maxim N. Kupreyev looks at the intricate stories of Egyptian-Coptic demonstratives and adverbs, personal, relative pronouns and definite articles. Applying the concepts of distance, contrast, and joint attention, the book offers a panorama of competing deitic systems in Old Kingdom Egypt. It singles out dialectal differences and outlines the history of deixis not as a linear development, but as a competition of regional variants that gradually attain normative status. The results of the study change the way we interpret the evolution of Ancient Egyptian, its periodization and its embedding in the Afro-Asiatic linguistic context"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Table of Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Tables -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction -- ‎1. A Short History of Deixis in Egyptian-Coptic: Evolution, Revolution, Involution -- ‎2. Synoptic Overview of the Chapters -- ‎3. Text Corpus -- ‎Chapter 2. Demonstratives in Old Egyptian: Typological Features -- ‎1. Literature Review -- ‎1.1. Edel (1955/1964) -- ‎1.2. Fecht (1960) -- ‎1.3. Westendorf (1962) -- ‎1.4. Schenkel (1989), Kammerzell (1992) -- ‎1.5. Kahl (2002), Schweitzer (2005), Pätznick (2005), Scheele-Schweitzer (2014) -- ‎1.6. Jenni (2009), Sperveslage (2009) -- ‎1.7. Zöller-Engelhardt (2016) -- ‎1.8. Allen (2017) -- ‎2. Pragmatic and Semantic Features -- ‎2.1. Theory -- ‎2.1.1. Exophoric (Situational) Use -- ‎2.1.2. Endophoric Use -- ‎2.1.3. Recognitional Use -- ‎2.1.4. Emotive Use -- ‎2.1.5. Spatial Features -- ‎2.1.6. Joint Attention Features -- ‎2.1.7. Qualitative Features -- ‎2.2. Praxis -- ‎2.2.1. The System of Joint Attention -- ‎2.2.2. The System of Relative Distance -- ‎2.2.3. The System of Joint Attention: An Unexposed Continuity -- ‎3. Morphological Features -- ‎3.1. Theory -- ‎3.1.1. Deictic Roots Extended with Non-Deictic Morphemes -- ‎3.1.2. Deictic Roots Extended with Deictic Morphemes -- ‎3.2. Praxis -- ‎3.2.1. Constitutive Morphemes of Egyptian Deictics -- ‎3.2.2. The Origins of the Deictic Morpheme ㄿ -- ‎3.2.3. Conclusions -- ‎4. Syntactic Features -- ‎4.1. Theory -- ‎4.1.1. Adnominal Use -- ‎4.1.2. Pronominal Use -- ‎4.1.3. Predicative Use -- ‎4.1.4. Adverbial Use -- ‎4.2. Praxis -- ‎4.2.1. Adnominal Use -- ‎4.2.2. Pronominal Use -- ‎4.2.3. Adverbial Use -- ‎4.2.4. Predicative Use -- ‎4.2.5. Conclusions -- ‎Chapter 3. Deixis, Dialects, and Linguistic Hegemony -- ‎1. Literature Review -- ‎1.1. Edgerton (1951) -- ‎1.2. Edel (1955/1964) -- ‎1.3. Fecht (1960) -- ‎1.4. Allen (2004).

‎1.5. Gundacker (2010, 2017), Ilin-Tomich (2018) -- ‎1.6. Winand (2017) -- ‎2. Theory -- ‎3. Praxis -- ‎3.1. Comparative Cluster 1: Pragmatic Features -- ‎3.1.1. Memphite Region: Two-Term Deictic System of Joint Attention -- ‎3.1.2. Memphite Region: Three-Term (Mixed) Deictic System -- ‎3.1.3. Elephantine and Abydos: Two-Term Deictic System of Relative Distance -- ‎3.1.4. Elephantine and Coptos: Three-Term (Mixed) Deictic System -- ‎3.2. Comparative Cluster 2: Morphological and Syntactic Features -- ‎3.3. Conclusions -- ‎3.3.1. Deixis and Decorum -- ‎3.3.2. Deixis and Dialects -- ‎Chapter 4. Grammaticalization Channels of Deictic Roots -- ‎1. Definite and Specific Articles -- ‎1.1. Theory -- ‎1.1.1. Anaphoric Demonstrative and Definite Article -- ‎1.1.2. Recognitional Demonstrative and Definite Article -- ‎1.1.3. The Grid of Typological Features -- ‎1.2. Praxis -- ‎1.2.1. Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian -- ‎1.2.2. Demotic -- ‎1.2.3. Coptic -- ‎2. Personal and Relative Pronouns -- ‎2.1. Theory -- ‎2.1.1. Personal Pronouns -- ‎2.1.2. Relative Pronouns -- ‎2.2. Praxis -- ‎2.2.1. Group 1 -- ‎2.2.2. Group 2 -- ‎2.2.3. Conclusions -- ‎3. Nexus (Copula) Pronouns and Focus Markers -- ‎3.1. Theory -- ‎3.2. Praxis -- ‎3.2.1. Emphatic Particle w ( ) -- ‎3.2.2. Negative Particle w -- ‎4. Adverbs -- ‎4.1. Theory -- ‎4.2. Praxis -- ‎4.2.1. ゝ as Dental Stop /d/ -- ‎4.2.2. ゝ as Pharyngeal Fricative / / -- ‎4.2.3. dw .t and d .t -- ‎Chapter 5. The Close, the Distant and the Known: Concluding Remarks -- ‎1. Pragmatic Features: from Attentional Demonstratives to Definite Articles -- ‎1.1. Old Kingdom -- ‎1.2. After Old Kingdom -- ‎2. Morphological Features: From pw to p -- ‎3. Syntactic Features: from Enclitics to Proclitics -- ‎4. Dialectal Features: From Dialectal Form to Linguistic Norm -- ‎5. Research Outlook: Beyond Grammar.

‎Appendix: Definiteness and Specificity in Article-Less Languages -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index of Place Names -- ‎Index of Deictic Forms -- ‎Index of Languages and Language Families -- ‎Index of Linguistic Terms -- ‎Index of Quoted Sources.