Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-055513-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 588 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1012 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic (‘typological’) perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages.
Uniquely, the contributions are written by both typologists and experts of Egyptian-Coptic and typologists. The former provide case studies dealing with particular aspects of the various phases of the Egyptian-Coptic language (e.g., COLLIER on conditional constructions), while the latter situate Egyptian-Coptic data in cross-linguistic perspective (e.g., those by GUELDEMANN and GENSLER). The volume also includes an introductory section that includes an overview of the Egyptian-Coptic language (HASPELMATH), a sketch of its sociohistorical setting (GROSSMAN & RICHTER), its relationship with language typology (RICHTER), and the way in which Egyptian-Coptic data should be presented to nonspecialists, focusing on transliteration and glossing (GROSSMAN & HASPELMATH).
This is the first book to bring together language typology and the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion.

Zielgruppe

Typologists, Historical Linguists, Specialists in Egyptian-Coptic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grossman, Eitan

Richter, Tonio Sebastian

Haspelmath, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

M. Haspelmath, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; E. Grossman, University of Jerusalem; T.S. Richter, University of Leipzig.