On Forms and Functions

On Forms and Functions
Author: Eitan Grossman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Egyptian language
ISBN: 9783943955156

This volume is the outcome of a workshop on Ancient Egyptian syntax held in Liege in 2011. The contributions deal with several central topics in syntactic analysis - like coordination, control and raising, gradience, or non-expression of participants - but also investigate the relationship between syntax and other domains, from morphology to pragmatics, with special attention to construction types and grammaticalization processes. The studies cover the whole Ancient Egyptian corpus, from Old Egyptian down to Coptic, in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. All of the papers share a common concern, namely, the relationship between form and function in Ancient Egyptian grammar. As such, the papers go beyond the descriptive level and address numerous stimulating 'why?' questions.

Future at Issue

Future at Issue
Author: Pascal Vernus
Publisher: Yale Egyptological Seminar
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1990
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780912532219

This is a technical study of Middle Egyptian grammar aimed at enhancing our understanding of tense, mood and aspect; a difficult area of research because, as the author notes, `we have no informants, since the discovered mummies have so far stubbornly refused to speak and are not expected to change their minds in the future'.

An Analytical Concordance of the Verb, the Negation and the Syntax in Egyptian Coffin Texts (2 vols)

An Analytical Concordance of the Verb, the Negation and the Syntax in Egyptian Coffin Texts (2 vols)
Author: Rami van der Molen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1960
Release: 2004-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 904741487X

The present volume is the long-awaited concordance of the Egyptian coffin texts. It forms the sequel to A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts by the same author. In 1961 A. de Buck published his important seven-volume corpus Egyptian Coffin Texts. The importance of these texts is considerable for a variety of reasons; they are one of the most important literary texts of classical Egypt; the many variants greatly enlarge our understanding of grammar and linguistic structures; the coffin texts are magical texts, the effectiveness of which depended upon the exact reproductions of the original spells. In this concordance the various readings of each lemma are provided in transliteration into the Latin alphabet, which makes the concordance easily accessible for those unable to read hieroglyphs. The material is divided into the morphological categories of the verb; within each category the verbs are treated in alphabetical order.