Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT], 55)

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. Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Preface 6 Table of Contents 10 Part I: Propaedeutics 12 Tonio Sebastian Richter • Early encounters: Egyptian-Coptic studies and comparative linguistics in the century from Schlegel to Finck 12 Eitan Grossman & Tonio Sebastian Richter • The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture 78 Martin Haspelmath • A grammatical overview of Egyptian and Coptic 112 Eitan Grossman & Martin Haspelmath • The Leipzig-Jerusalem Transliteration of Coptic 154 Part II: Studies 164 Mark Collier • Conditionals in Late Egyptian 164 Orin D. Gensler • A typological look at Egyptian *d > ʕ 194 Eitan Grossman • No case before the verb, obligatory case after the verb in Coptic 210 Tom Güldemann • How typology can inform philology: quotative j(n) in Earlier Egyptian 234 Martin Haspelmath • The three adnominal possessive constructions in Egyptian-Coptic: Three degrees of grammaticalization 268 Dmitry Idiatov • Egyptian non-selective interrogative pronominals: history and typology 296 Antonio Loprieno • Typological remodeling in Egyptian language history: salience, source and conjunction 330 Carsten Peust • Towards a typology of poetic rhyme: With observations on rhyme in Egyptian 348 Chris H. Reintges • The Old and Early Middle Egyptian Stative: Morphosyntax • Semantics • Typology 394 Andréas Stauder • A rare change: the degrammaticalization of an inflectional passive marker into an impersonal subject pronoun in Earlier Egyptian 462 Jean Winand • The oblique expression of the object in Ancient Egyptian 540 Index of authors 568 Index of languages 576 General index 580