| Description |
1 online resource (588 pages) |
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 0933-761X ; Volume 55 |
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Empirical approaches to language typology ; Volume 55
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Early encounters: Egyptian-Coptic studies and comparative linguistics in the century from Schlegel to Finck / Richter, Tonio Sebastian -- The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture / Grossman, Eitan ; Richter, Tonio Sebastian -- A grammatical overview of Egyptian and Coptic / Haspelmath, Martin -- The Leipzig-Jerusalem Transliteration of Coptic / Grossman, Eitan ; Haspelmath, Martin -- Conditionals in Late Egyptian / Collier, Mark -- A typological look at Egyptian *d > ʕ / Gensler, Orin D. -- No case before the verb, obligatory case after the verb in Coptic / Grossman, Eitan -- How typology can inform philology: quotative j(n) in Earlier Egyptian / Güldemann, Tom -- The three adnominal possessive constructions in Egyptian-Coptic: Three degrees of grammaticalization / Haspelmath, Martin -- Egyptian non-selective interrogative pronominals: history and typology / Idiatov, Dmitry -- Typological remodeling in Egyptian language history: salience, source and conjunction / Loprieno, Antonio -- Towards a typology of poetic rhyme / Peust, Carsten -- The Old and Early Middle Egyptian Stative / Reintges, Chris H. -- A rare change: the degrammaticalization of an inflectional passive marker into an impersonal subject pronoun in Earlier Egyptian / Stauder, Andréas -- The oblique expression of the object in Ancient Egyptian / Winand, Jean -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- General index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Egyptian language -- Grammar, Comparative
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Coptic language -- Grammar, Comparative
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Typology (Linguistics)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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Egyptian language -- Grammar, Comparative
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Typology (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grossman, Eitan, editor
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Haspelmath, Martin, 1963- editor.
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Richter, Tonio Sebastian, editor
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| LC no. |
2014043080 |
| ISBN |
9783110346510 |
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3110346516 |
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3110555131 |
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9783110555134 |
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3110394596 |
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9783110394597 |
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