The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. Part I: Propaedeutics
5. Early encounters: Egyptian-Coptic studies and comparative linguistics in the century from Schlegel to Finck 3
6. The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture 69
7. A grammatical overview of Egyptian and Coptic 103
8. The Leipzig-Jerusalem Transliteration of Coptic 145
9. Part II: Studies
10. Conditionals in Late Egyptian 157
11. A typological look at Egyptian *d > ʕ 187
12. No case before the verb, obligatory case after the verb in Coptic 203
13. How typology can inform philology: quotative j(n) in Earlier Egyptian 227
14. The three adnominal possessive constructions in Egyptian-Coptic: Three degrees of grammaticalization 261
15. Egyptian non-selective interrogative pronominals: history and typology 289
16. Typological remodeling in Egyptian language history: salience, source and conjunction 323
17. Towards a typology of poetic rhyme 341
18. The Old and Early Middle Egyptian Stative 387
19. A rare change: the degrammaticalization of an inflectional passive marker into an impersonal subject pronoun in Earlier Egyptian 455
20. The oblique expression of the object in Ancient Egyptian 533
21. Index of authors 561
22. Index of languages 569
23. General index 573