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 Kin...

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.