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Conjunction, contiguity, contingency : on relationships between events in the Egyptian and Coptic verbal systems /
This monograph comprises three intimately related studies on the grammar of hieroglyphic Egyptian and its linear descendant, Coptic, covering a period of 4000 years of language history. Depuydt approaches the subject from the standpoint of the 'Standard Theory' developed by his mentor, the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©1993.
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- Preface: On Relationships between Events; I: CONJUNCTION; 1. Introduction; 2. The Conjunctive as ""Con-joiner""; 3. The Conjunctive Following Second Tenses; 4. The Conjunctive Following the Negative Imperative of gmj ""find"" and nau ""see""; 5. Coptic nci in the Conjunctive Chain; 6. Negations in the Conjunctive Chain; A. The Two Levels of the Conjunctive Chain; B. Negation on the Level of the Compound Action; C. Types of Negations; D.A Comparison of Types I.c and Il.a; E.A Comparison of Types I.d and Il.b; F.A Comparison of Types I.d and Il.a; G. Types of Negation: Examples.
- 7. Semantic Types of Conjunctive Chains8. The Promissive Future and the Conjunctive in Coptic; A. Introduction; B. The Function of the Conjugation Base tare; C. The Promissive Future and the Conjunctive: A Comparison of Their Functions; 9. Translating the Conjunctive; A. Omission of Elements; B. An Etymological Translation; 10. Relationship of the Conjunctive with What Precedes; 11. Conjunction beyond the Conjunctive; A. Equivalents of the Conjunctive in Egyptian and Other Languages; B. The Middle Egyptian Predecessor of the Conjunctive; C.A Con-joining Construction in Nominal Phrases.
- 12. Concluding Remarks13. A Bibliography of the Conjunctive; II: CONTIGUITY; 1. Introduction: The Notion of ""Contiguity""; 2. Contiguity in Sinuhe B 200; 3. Contrastive Emphasis and Contiguity; 4. Translating Contiguous Events; 5. Morphological and Syntactic Criteria; 6. Events Prone to Contracting a Relationship of Contiguity; A. Transitions from Night to Day; B. Transitions from Day to Night; C. Another Transition from One Period of Time to Another; D. Expressions Referring to the End Point of a Motion; 7. Expressions of Contiguity in the Story of Sinuhe; 8. [sup(c)]h[sup(c)].n sdm.n=f.
- 9. Excursus: jwj ""come"" and jnj ""bring""10. Simultaneity as an Expression of Contiguity; 11. An Expression of Contiguity Dating to the New Kingdom; III: CONTINGENCY; 1. Sdm.hr=f/hr=f sdm=f as Contingent Aorist; A. From Egyptian hr to Coptic ša; B. sdm.hr=f and jw=f sdm=f in Middle Egyptian; C. Examples of sdm.hr=f with Implied Conditions; D. Contingent and General Aorist in the Papyrus Ebers; E. Neutralization between sdm.hr=f and jw=f sdm=f; F. Condition and Result; G. The Aorist after Middle Egyptian; H. General and Specific Contingency; 2. Sdm.k3=f/k3(=f) sdm=f as Contingent Future.
- A. Sdm.k3=f/k3=f sdm=f in Conditional SentencesB. Examples of sdm.k3=f with Implied Conditions; C. K3(=f) sdm=f in the Letters of the Kahun Archive; D. Contrary-to-fact Conditions; E. The Particle k3; F. Neutralization between Contingent and General Future; G. The Contingent Future in Coptic; 3. Sdm.jn=f as Contingent Past; 4. Conclusion; A. The Contingent Tenses of Middle Egyptian; B. Translating the Contingent Tenses; C. The Conditionnel in French and Other Parallels to the Contingent Tenses outside Egyptian; D. Contingency and Contrast; INDEXES; Index of Passages Cited.