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Deixis in Egyptian
The Close, the Distant, and the Known
Series: - Harvard Egyptological Studies, Volume: 18
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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.
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.
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
â1âA Short History of Deixis in Egyptian-Coptic: Evolution, Revolution, Involution
â2âSynoptic Overview of the Chapters
â3âText Corpus
2 Demonstratives in Old Egyptian: Typological Features
â1âLiterature Review
â2âPragmatic and Semantic Features
â3âMorphological Features
â4âSyntactic Features
3 Deixis, Dialects, and Linguistic Hegemony
â1âLiterature Review
â2âTheory
â3âPraxis
4 Grammaticalization Channels of Deictic Roots
â1âDefinite and Specific Articles
â2âPersonal and Relative Pronouns
â3âNexus (Copula) Pronouns and Focus Markers
â4âAdverbs
5 The Close, the Distant and the Known: Concluding Remarks
â1âPragmatic Features: From Attentional Demonstratives to Definite Articles
â2âMorphological Features: From pw to pê£
â3âSyntactic Features: From Enclitics to Proclitics
â4âDialectal Features: From Dialectal Form to Linguistic Norm
â5âResearch Outlook: Beyond Grammar
Appendix: Definiteness and Specificity in Article-Less Languages
Bibliography
Index
List of Tables
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
â1âA Short History of Deixis in Egyptian-Coptic: Evolution, Revolution, Involution
â2âSynoptic Overview of the Chapters
â3âText Corpus
2 Demonstratives in Old Egyptian: Typological Features
â1âLiterature Review
â2âPragmatic and Semantic Features
â3âMorphological Features
â4âSyntactic Features
3 Deixis, Dialects, and Linguistic Hegemony
â1âLiterature Review
â2âTheory
â3âPraxis
4 Grammaticalization Channels of Deictic Roots
â1âDefinite and Specific Articles
â2âPersonal and Relative Pronouns
â3âNexus (Copula) Pronouns and Focus Markers
â4âAdverbs
5 The Close, the Distant and the Known: Concluding Remarks
â1âPragmatic Features: From Attentional Demonstratives to Definite Articles
â2âMorphological Features: From pw to pê£
â3âSyntactic Features: From Enclitics to Proclitics
â4âDialectal Features: From Dialectal Form to Linguistic Norm
â5âResearch Outlook: Beyond Grammar
Appendix: Definiteness and Specificity in Article-Less Languages
Bibliography
Index
Historical linguists, linguistic typologists, and dialectologists, specialists in Afro-Asiatic languages, Egyptologists, and everyone interested in the history of the Egyptian-Coptic and its embedding in the regional, cultural, and political contexts.