Overview

In this volume, Maxim N. Kupreyev explores 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 deictic 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 reconsider the evolution of Ancient Egyptian, its periodization and its embedding in the Afro-Asiatic linguistic context.

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Author:   Maxim N. Kupreyev
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   18
Weight:   0.824kg
ISBN:  

9789004523395

ISBN 10:   9004523391
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   22 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 A Short History of Deixis in Egyptian-Coptic: Evolution, Revolution, Involution  2 Synoptic Overview of the Chapters  3 Text Corpus 2 Demonstratives in Old Egyptian: Typological Features  1 Literature Review  2 Pragmatic and Semantic Features  3 Morphological Features  4 Syntactic Features 3 Deixis, Dialects, and Linguistic Hegemony  1 Literature Review  2 Theory  3 Praxis 4 Grammaticalization Channels of Deictic Roots  1 Definite and Specific Articles  2 Personal and Relative Pronouns  3 Nexus (Copula) Pronouns and Focus Markers  4 Adverbs 5 The Close, the Distant and the Known: Concluding Remarks  1 Pragmatic Features: From Attentional Demonstratives to Definite Articles  2 Morphological Features: From pw to pꜣ  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

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"Maxim N. Kupreyev, Ph.D. (2020), Freie Universität Berlin, is an Egyptologist and a researcher at the ""School of Salamanca"" project, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. He has published on topics including Egyptian-Coptic language and digital humanities."

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