Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective

Edited by: Eitan Grossman , Martin Haspelmath and Tonio Sebastian Richter

Volume 55 in the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346510

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About this book

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.

Author information

M. Haspelmath, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; E. Grossman, University of Jerusalem; T.S. Richter, University of Leipzig.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Part I: Propaedeutics
Early encounters: Egyptian-Coptic studies and comparative linguistics in the century from Schlegel to Finck Tonio Sebastian Richter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture Eitan Grossman and Tonio Sebastian Richter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
A grammatical overview of Egyptian and Coptic Martin Haspelmath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The Leipzig-Jerusalem Transliteration of Coptic Eitan Grossman and Martin Haspelmath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Part II: Studies
Conditionals in Late Egyptian Mark Collier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
A typological look at Egyptian *d > ʕ Orin D. Gensler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
No case before the verb, obligatory case after the verb in Coptic Eitan Grossman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
How typology can inform philology: quotative j(n) in Earlier Egyptian Tom Güldemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
The three adnominal possessive constructions in Egyptian-Coptic: Three degrees of grammaticalization Martin Haspelmath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Egyptian non-selective interrogative pronominals: history and typology Dmitry Idiatov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Typological remodeling in Egyptian language history: salience, source and conjunction Antonio Loprieno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Towards a typology of poetic rhyme Carsten Peust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
The Old and Early Middle Egyptian Stative Chris H. Reintges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
A rare change: the degrammaticalization of an inflectional passive marker into an impersonal subject pronoun in Earlier Egyptian Andréas Stauder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
The oblique expression of the object in Ancient Egyptian Jean Winand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
Index of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
General index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Typologists, Historical Linguists, Specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic Languages, or African Languages
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 578
Keywords: Egyptian-Coptic; Afroasiatic Languages; African Languages

eBook

Published: December 17, 2014
ISBN: 9783110346510

Hardcover

Published: November 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783110346398

Paperback

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110555134