Conjunction, contiguity, contingency : on relationships between events in the Egyptian and Coptic verbal systems /

Conjunction, contiguity, contingency : on relationships between events in the Egyptian and Coptic verbal systems /

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Author / Creator:	Depuydt, Leo.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, ©1993.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 281 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Egyptian language -- Verb. Coptic language -- Verb. Coptic language -- Verb. Egyptian language -- Verb. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11200789

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ISBN:	9780195080926 0195080920 1423736818 9781423736813 1280443332 9781280443336 9786610443338 6610443335 0195080920
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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 distinguished Egyptologist, Hans Jakob Polotsky. The first essay studies the verb form called 'conjunctive', arguing that the function of the conjunctive is to 'conjoin' 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 labelled conjunction, continguity and contingency. Taken together, these three studies constitute a significant advance in our understanding of the ancient languages of Egypt.
Other form:	Print version: Depuydt, Leo. Conjunction, contiguity, contingency. New York : Oxford University Press, ©1993

Table of Contents:

Preface on Relationships Between Events
I. Conjunction
1. Introduction
2. The Conjunctive as Con-Joiner""""""""
3. The Conjunctive Following Second Tenses
5. Coptic Nci in the Conjunctive Chain
6. Negations in the Conjunctive Chain
7. Semantic Types of Conjunctive Chains
8. The Promissive Future and the Conjunctive in Coptic
9. Translating the Conjunctive
10. Relationship of the Conjunctive with What Precedes
11. Conjunction Beyond the Conjunctive
12. Concluding
13. A Bibliography of the Conjunctive
II. Contiguity
2. Contiguity in Sinuhe B 200
3. Contrastive Emphasis and Contiguity
4. Translating Contiguous Events
5. Morphological and Syntactic Criteria
Events Prone to Contracting a Relationship of Contiguity
7. Expressions of Contiguity in the Story of Sinuhe
8. C&hbdot;c.N S&dbbar;m.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. S&dbbar;m.&Hbbreve;r=F/&Hbbreve;r=F S&dbbar;m=F as Contingent Aorist
2. S&dbbar;m.K3=F/K3(=F) S&dbbar;m=F as Contingent Future
4. Conclusion
Indexes Index of Passages Cited
Index of Authors Cited
General Index