Description
The language of Ancient Egypt has been the object of careful investigation since its decipherment in the nineteenth century, but this is the first accessible account which uses the insights of modern linguistics. Antonio Loprieno traces Ancient Egyptian's historical development from Old Egyptian to Coptic, and, combining diachronic and synchronic viewpoints wherever possible, he looks at the hieroglyphic system and its cursive varieties (Hieratic and Demotic), the phonology of Classical Egyptian and Coptic, the phonology and syntax of the literary languages, and semantic and pragmatic constraints on syntax. He also looks at the genetic connections of Egyptian within the Afroasiatic family, especially with Semitic languages such as Akkadian, Arabic, and Hebrew. This book will be essential reading for linguists and Egyptologists alike.
Chapter
2.3 Connotational devices in the hieroglyphic system
2.4 The historical development of Egyptian writing
2.5 The end of the system and its rediscovery
3.3 The prehistory of Egyptian phonology
3.4 The phonological system of earlier Egyptian
3.4.3 Syllabic structures
3.5 The phonological system of later Egyptian
3.5.3 Syllabic structures
3.6 The phonological system of Coptic
3.6.3 Syllabic structures
4 Elements of historical morphology
4.3.5 Feminine and plural in later Egyptian
4.4.2 Personal pronouns in later Egyptian
4.4.3 Deictic, interrogative, and relative pronouns
4.6.2 General features of verbal morphology
4.6.3 Verbal morphology in earlier Egyptian
4.6.4 Non-finite verbal forms
4.6.5 Negative verbal forms
4.6.6 Verbal morphology in later Egyptian
4.7 Prepositions, conjunctions, particles
5.2 Bipartite vs. tripartite patterns
5.2.1 Classifying and identifying patterns
5.2.2 Specifying patterns
5.3 Entire clauses as predicate of pw : "thetic" statements
5.4 Sentences with adjectival predicate and cleft sentences
5.4.1 Qualifying patterns
5.4.2 Identifying (cleft) sentences
5.5 Possessive and interrogative patterns
5.5.1 Possessive constructions
5.5.2 Interrogative constructions
5.6 Existential sentences and temporal-modal features
5.8 Nominal sentences in later Egyptian
5.9 Old and new cleft sentences
5.10 Interrogative, possessive, and existential patterns
5.11 Negation in later Egyptian
6 Adverbial and pseudoverbal syntax
6.2 Adverbial and pseudoverbal patterns
6.3 Adverbial conversions
6.3.3 Converted vs. unconverted relative clauses
6.4 Initial vs. non-initial clauses
6.4.2 The proclitic particles j w and mk
6.5 Negation in adverbial and pseudoverbal patterns
6.5.1 Negation in adverbial and pseudoverbal sentences
6.5.2 Negation of adverbial phrases
6.6 Adverbial sentences in later Egyptian
6.6.1 The Present I and its conversions
6.6.2 The fate of pseudoverbal patterns
6.6.3 Main vs. subordinate clauses
6.7 Later Egyptian negative patterns
7.2 The independent verbal sentence
7.3 Initial vs. non-initial main clauses
7.4 Verbal clauses embedded as adverbial phrases
7.5 The verbal sentence with topicalized predicate
7.5.1 General characteristics
7.5.2 Topicalized vs. adverbialized verbal forms
7.5.3 The "balanced" sentence
7.5.4 Other focalizing uses of the topicalized VP
7.6 Verbal clauses embedded as noun phrases
7.7 Converted relative clauses
7.7.2 Relative conversion of agentless sentences
7.8 Negation in verbal clauses
7.8.1 Contradictory negation in main verbal clauses
7.8.3 Contrary negation in verbal clauses
78.4 Negation of verbal predicates em bedded as AP
7.8.5 Negation of verbal predicates embedded as NP
7.8.6 Negation of adjectival conversions
7.9 Verbal syntax in later Egyptian
7.9.2 Initial verbal clauses and parataxis
7.9.3 Non-initial verbal clauses and hypo taxis
7.9.4 Dependent clauses and subordination
7.9.5 From embedding to conversion
Ancient Egyptian
：A Linguistic Introduction
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