Egyptian-Coptic linguistics in typological perspective / / Edited by Eitan Grossman, Martin Haspelmath and Tonio Sebastian Richter

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 578 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 493/.2
• Soggetto topico: Egyptian language - Grammar, Comparative; Coptic language - Grammar, Comparative; Typology (Linguistics)
• Soggetto non controllato: African Languages; Afroasiatic Languages; Egyptian-Coptic
• Persona (resp. second.): GrossmanEitan; HaspelmathMartin <1963->; RichterTonio Sebastian
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Early encounters: Egyptian-Coptic studies and comparative linguistics in the century from Schlegel to Finck -- The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture -- A grammatical overview of Egyptian and Coptic -- The Leipzig-Jerusalem Transliteration of Coptic -- Conditionals in Late Egyptian -- A typological look at Egyptian *d > ʕ -- No case before the verb, obligatory case after the verb in Coptic -- How typology can inform philology: quotative j(n) in Earlier Egyptian -- The three adnominal possessive constructions in Egyptian-Coptic: Three degrees of grammaticalization -- Egyptian non-selective interrogative pronominals: history and typology -- Typological remodeling in Egyptian language history: salience, source and conjunction -- Towards a typology of poetic rhyme -- The Old and Early Middle Egyptian Stative -- A rare change: the degrammaticalization of an inflectional passive marker into an impersonal subject pronoun in Earlier Egyptian -- The oblique expression of the object in Ancient Egyptian -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- General index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Egyptian-Coptic linguistics in typological perspective
• ISBN: 3-11-055513-1; 3-11-039459-6; 3-11-034651-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815305203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; Volume 55.