The Earlier Egyptian Passive

Author : Andréas Stauder
Publisher : Widmaier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783943955149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earlier Egyptian Passive written by Andréas Stauder and published by Widmaier Verlag. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study concerns passive voice in Earlier Egyptian (Old and Middle Egyptian combined), providing a text-based description of the relevant forms and constructions, and of their functions in discourse. It is argued that the passive is not merely a symmetrical pendant to the active, but a complex domain of its own, morphologically, semantically, and in terms of its discourse functions. This is manifest for example in the morphological types of inflectional passives, the productivity of subjectless passive constructions of various sorts, or the interaction of the passive with stative/resultative voice. Passive voice further interacts with aspect: in the unaccomplished, the passive has fewer forms than the active, while in the accomplished a reverse situation is observed. The two inflectional passives in the accomplished-the perfective V-passive (the 'sDm(w)=f') and the T-passive of the sDm.n=f (the sDm.n.t=f)-are thus shown to contrast with one another in principled semantic, not syntactic, ways. Major changes affecting passive voice during the history of Earlier Egyptian are discussed: the loss of the prospective V-passive, the spread of T-passives over the perfective V-passive in various environments, and the rise of an 'impersonal' subject pronoun.tw out of an inflectional passive marker. The last, a rare change and an instance of de-grammaticalization, is analyzed in details in terms of the processes involved and of the particular intra-linguistic situation that made it possible. Broadening the perspective, relevant elements of the Semitic background are evoked.

Author : Sami Uljas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158316
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses written by Sami Uljas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a novel analysis of complement clauses in Earlier Egyptian language. The grammar of these constructions is shown to be organised around a system for expressing Irrealis and Realis modality.

Author : Eitan Grossman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110394596
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective written by Eitan Grossman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages. The book is the first to bring together language typology and the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion.

Author : María Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646022319
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic written by María Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic provides a fresh approach to the relationships and similarities between Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic languages. This in-depth analysis includes a re-examination of the methodologies deployed in historical linguistics and comparative grammar, a morphological study of Ancient Egyptian, and critical comparisons between Ancient Egyptian and Semitic, as well as careful considerations of environmental factors and archaeological evidence. These contributions offer a reassessment of the Afroasiatic phylum, which is based on the relations between Ancient Egyptian and the other Afroasiatic branches. This volume illustrates the advantages of viewing Ancient Egyptian in its African context. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this collection include Shiferaw Assefa, Michael Avina, Vit Bubenik, Leo Depuydt, Christopher Ehret, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, J. Lafayette Gaston, Tiffany Gleason, John Huehnergard, Andrew Kitchen, Elsa Oréal, Chelsea Sanker, Lameen Souag, Andréas Stauder, Deven N. Vyas, Aren Wilson-Wright, and Jean Winand.

Author : Christoph Hanns Reintges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passive Voice in Older Egyptian written by Christoph Hanns Reintges and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1937040437
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coping with Obscurity written by James P. Allen and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping with Obscurity publishes the papers discussed at the Brown University Workshop on Earlier Egyptian grammar in March, 2013. The workshop united ten scholars of differing viewpoints dealing with the central question of how to judge and interpret the grammatical value of the written evidence preserved in texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2350-1650 BC). The nine papers in the volume present orthographic, lexical, morphological, and syntactic approaches to the data and represent a significant step toward a new, pluralistic understanding of Earlier Egyptian grammar.

Author : Elizabeth Frood
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1948488302
Total Pages : 351 pages
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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Biographies written by Elizabeth Frood and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: (1) anthropological and contrastive perspectives; (2) the original Old Kingdom settings; (3) text format and language; (4) social dimensions; and (5) religious experience.

Author : Ljuba Veselinova
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3985540357
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negative Existential Cycle written by Ljuba Veselinova and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139486357
Total Pages : 525 pages
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Download or read book Middle Egyptian written by James P. Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary. It also includes a series of twenty-five essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion and literature. The combination of grammar lessons and cultural essays allows users to not only read hieroglyphic texts but also to understand them, providing readers with the foundation to understand texts on monuments and to read great works of ancient Egyptian literature in the original text. This second edition contains revised exercises and essays, providing an up to date account of current research and discoveries. New illustrations enhance discussions and examples. These additions combine with the previous edition to create a complete grammatical description of the classical language of ancient Egypt for specialists in linguistics and other fields.

Author : Ian Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192596985
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology written by Ian Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt from prehistory through to the end of the Roman period. It seeks to place Egyptology within its theoretical, methodological, and historical contexts, indicating how the subject has evolved and discussing its distinctive contemporary problems, issues, and potential. Transcending conventional boundaries between archaeological and ancient textual analysis, the volume brings together 63 chapters that range widely across archaeological, philological, and cultural sub-disciplines, highlighting the extent to which Egyptology as a subject has diversified and stressing the need for it to seek multidisciplinary methods and broader collaborations if it is to remain contemporary and relevant. Organized into ten parts, it offers a comprehensive synthesis of the various sub-topics and specializations that make up the field as a whole, from the historical and geographical perspectives that have influenced its development and current characteristics, to aspects of museology and conservation, and from materials and technology - as evidenced in domestic architecture and religious and funerary items - to textual and iconographic approaches to Egyptian culture. Authoritative yet accessible, it serves not only as an invaluable reference work for scholars and students working within the discipline, but also as a gateway into Egyptology for classicists, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists.