Deixis in Egyptian

The Close, the Distant, and the Known
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52339-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 824 g

Reihe: Harvard Egyptological Studies

In this volume, Maxim N. Kupreyev explores the intricate stories of Egyptian-Coptic demonstratives and adverbs, personal, relative pronouns and definite articles. Applying the concepts of distance, contrast, and joint attention, the book offers a panorama of competing deictic systems in Old Kingdom Egypt. It singles out dialectal differences and outlines the history of deixis not as a linear development, but as a competition of regional variants that gradually attain normative status. The results of the study reconsider the evolution of Ancient Egyptian, its periodization and its embedding in the Afro-Asiatic linguistic context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

N Kupreyev, Maxim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1 A Short History of Deixis in Egyptian-Coptic: Evolution, Revolution, Involution

2 Synoptic Overview of the Chapters

3 Text Corpus

2 Demonstratives in Old Egyptian: Typological Features

1 Literature Review

2 Pragmatic and Semantic Features

3 Morphological Features

4 Syntactic Features

3 Deixis, Dialects, and Linguistic Hegemony

1 Literature Review

2 Theory

3 Praxis

4 Grammaticalization Channels of Deictic Roots

1 Definite and Specific Articles

2 Personal and Relative Pronouns

3 Nexus (Copula) Pronouns and Focus Markers

4 Adverbs

5 The Close, the Distant and the Known: Concluding Remarks

1 Pragmatic Features: From Attentional Demonstratives to Definite Articles

2 Morphological Features: From pw to p?

3 Syntactic Features: From Enclitics to Proclitics

4 Dialectal Features: From Dialectal Form to Linguistic Norm

5 Research Outlook: Beyond Grammar

Appendix: Definiteness and Specificity in Article-Less Languages

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maxim N. Kupreyev, Ph.D. (2020), Freie Universität Berlin, is an Egyptologist and a researcher at the "School of Salamanca" project, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. He has published on topics including Egyptian-Coptic language and digital humanities.