Language is in large part about the description of events occurring in the world around us. Relationships of different sorts may be perceived between those events. And some of these relationships can be expressed by specific verb forms--or by syntactic constructions involving specific verb forms. The present study examines this facet of the Egyptian and Coptic verbal systems in isolation, singling out three types of relationships between events and the linguistic means by which they are expressed. The first essay studies the verb form called "conjunctive," arguing that the function of the conjunctive is to "con-join" a chain of two or more events into a single--though compound--notion. The second essay shows how a certain syntactic construction can be used to refer to events that are contiguous, that is, events that succeed one another rapidly in time. The third essay examines verb forms that refer to events whose occurrence is contingent on the occurrence of other events implied or explicitly mentioned in the context. The respective grammatical phenomena are labeled conjunction, contiguity, and contingency. This study constitutes a significant advancement in our understanding of the ancient language of Egypt, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Egyptology, Coptology, and the Ancient Near East, as well as linguists, Byzantinists and Classicists.

Conjunction, Contiguity, Contingency: On Relationships between Events in the Egyptian and Coptic Verbal Systems

Business & Money

Depuydt, Leo

Economics

Oxford University Press

This is part 1 of an introduction to hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian, also known as Classical Egyptian. It was spoken in ancient Egypt around 2000 BC and remained in use later on as a written-only language. There is much controversy on the proper analysis of the verb in Middle Egyptian. But Part 1 should already lead one far enough into a knowledge of the language to begin making up one's own mind about theories on the verb. This work is organized in two ways: first, in chapters and sections by subject matter; and second, in thirty-six lessons with questions and exercises. The book is suitable for both classroom use and self-teaching. It is fully self-sufficient, containing all the necessary vocabulary, a full answer key to all the exercises, a list of all the hieroglyphic signs occurring in text and exercises, and definitions of every single grammatical term used in the book. Much emphasis is placed on analysis. This book is not only a textbook but also an analysis ! of the fundamentals of Middle Egyptian presented in textbook format for clarity. The analysis progresses from the most basic elements to ever increasing complexity by simple and obvious incremental steps. No prior knowledge of grammar or of any theory of language is presupposed. Grammatical terms are used parsimoniously. The work is inspired by teaching Egyptian at Yale, Brown, and Harvard Universities.

Fundamentals of Egyptian Grammar: Elements

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Frog Pub

This volume updates Depuydt's earlier work on the chronology of the Achaemenid period, analysing evidence which has emerged since the original publication of that work ten to fifteen years ago. Particular focus is on the precise dating of regnal transitions.

From Xerxes' Murder (465) to Arridaios' Execution (317): Updates to Achaemenid Chronology (BAR International)

History

Ancient Civilizations

British Archaeological Reports

Since Boole, symbolic logic has supplanted Aristotelian logic. Claude Shannon first applied Boolean algebra to electronic circuits. In this investigation, several facets of ancient Egyptian and its parallels in other languages are reinterpreted from the point of view of modern logic.

The Other Mathematics: Language and Logic in Egyptian and in General:

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Gorgias Press

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