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Author Depuydt, Leo

Title Conjunction, contiguity, contingency : on relationships between events in the Egyptian and Coptic verbal systems / Leo Depuydt
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 281 pages)
Contents Preface: On Relationships between Events; I: CONJUNCTION; 1. Introduction; 2. The Conjunctive as ""Con-joiner""; 3. The Conjunctive Following Second Tenses; 4. The Conjunctive Following the Negative Imperative of gmj ""find"" and nau ""see""; 5. Coptic nci in the Conjunctive Chain; 6. Negations in the Conjunctive Chain; A. The Two Levels of the Conjunctive Chain; B. Negation on the Level of the Compound Action; C. Types of Negations; D.A Comparison of Types I.c and Il.a; E.A Comparison of Types I.d and Il.b; F.A Comparison of Types I.d and Il.a; G. Types of Negation: Examples
7. Semantic Types of Conjunctive Chains8. The Promissive Future and the Conjunctive in Coptic; A. Introduction; B. The Function of the Conjugation Base tare; C. The Promissive Future and the Conjunctive: A Comparison of Their Functions; 9. Translating the Conjunctive; A. Omission of Elements; B. An Etymological Translation; 10. Relationship of the Conjunctive with What Precedes; 11. Conjunction beyond the Conjunctive; A. Equivalents of the Conjunctive in Egyptian and Other Languages; B. The Middle Egyptian Predecessor of the Conjunctive; C.A Con-joining Construction in Nominal Phrases
12. Concluding Remarks13. A Bibliography of the Conjunctive; II: CONTIGUITY; 1. Introduction: The Notion of ""Contiguity""; 2. Contiguity in Sinuhe B 200; 3. Contrastive Emphasis and Contiguity; 4. Translating Contiguous Events; 5. Morphological and Syntactic Criteria; 6. Events Prone to Contracting a Relationship of Contiguity; A. Transitions from Night to Day; B. Transitions from Day to Night; C. Another Transition from One Period of Time to Another; D. Expressions Referring to the End Point of a Motion; 7. Expressions of Contiguity in the Story of Sinuhe; 8. [sup(c)]h[sup(c)].n sdm.n=f
9. Excursus: jwj ""come"" and jnj ""bring""10. Simultaneity as an Expression of Contiguity; 11. An Expression of Contiguity Dating to the New Kingdom; III: CONTINGENCY; 1. Sdm.hr=f/hr=f sdm=f as Contingent Aorist; A. From Egyptian hr to Coptic ša; B. sdm.hr=f and jw=f sdm=f in Middle Egyptian; C. Examples of sdm.hr=f with Implied Conditions; D. Contingent and General Aorist in the Papyrus Ebers; E. Neutralization between sdm.hr=f and jw=f sdm=f; F. Condition and Result; G. The Aorist after Middle Egyptian; H. General and Specific Contingency; 2. Sdm.k3=f/k3(=f) sdm=f as Contingent Future
A. Sdm.k3=f/k3=f sdm=f in Conditional SentencesB. Examples of sdm.k3=f with Implied Conditions; C. K3(=f) sdm=f in the Letters of the Kahun Archive; D. Contrary-to-fact Conditions; E. The Particle k3; F. Neutralization between Contingent and General Future; G. The Contingent Future in Coptic; 3. Sdm.jn=f as Contingent Past; 4. Conclusion; A. The Contingent Tenses of Middle Egyptian; B. Translating the Contingent Tenses; C. The Conditionnel in French and Other Parallels to the Contingent Tenses outside Egyptian; D. Contingency and Contrast; INDEXES; Index of Passages Cited
Summary This monograph comprises three intimately related studies on the grammar of hieroglyphic Egyptian and its linear descendant, Coptic, covering a period of 4000 years of language history. Depuydt approaches the subject from the standpoint of the 'Standard Theory' developed by his mentor, the distinguished Egyptologist, Hans Jakob Polotsky. The first essay studies the verb form called 'conjunctive', arguing that the function of the conjunctive is to 'conjoin' a chain of two or more events into a single - though compound - notion. The second essay shows how a certain syntactic construction can be used to refer to events that are contiguous, that is, events that succeed one another rapidly in time. The third essay examines verb forms that refer to events whose occurrence is contingent on the occurrence of other events implied or explicitly mentioned in the context. The respective grammatical phenomena are labelled conjunction, continguity and contingency. Taken together, these three studies constitute a significant advance in our understanding of the ancient languages of Egypt
Analysis Egyptian language
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Egyptian language -- Verb
Coptic language -- Verb
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- African Languages.
Coptic language -- Verb
Egyptian language -- Verb
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92029818
ISBN 9780195080926
0195080920
1423736818
9781423736813
1280443332
9781280443336
9786610443338
6610443335